by Michel Faber
Peter is a man reformed - he battled his demons, he found a wife, he found God, and he found peace. He's someone who loves people. As The Book of Strange New Things opens, Peter prepares to embark on a journey to a planet galaxies away. Once there he will act as a missionary - learning about, livi...
Can a marriage be saved even if you are doing God’s will and serving him to the best of your ability? That is the main question I took from reading The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber. It’s an interesting question that the novel tries to answer. I’m glad this was my choice for the fir...
When the story opens up, Peter Leigh and his wife Bea are on their way to Heathrow. They are a devout Christian couple, and they share a very close relationship. They have their own ministry near London, but they were both interviewing for a job that would take them to a distant world, a faraway pla...
With a beautiful title and a beautiful cover, the novel had created great expectations to live up to. In The book of strange new things Peter has decided to go to Oasis - a newly colonized planet - as a missionary while his wife Bea stays behind in England. While he has the time of his life as his...
There were a few times during the reading of this book that I felt like abandoning it. I pushed on hoping this very flawed book would reward me with a decent ending, but unfortunately not. There are themes and ideas that could have made for an intriguing, philosophical and smart story but they all l...
Do science fiction and faith go well together: a thought I pondered as I read Michel Faber's The Book of Strange New Things. Readers and believers on both sides of the divide find much to quarrel about. I had to remind myself that science fiction is not indeed science, nor is faith religion. The two...
The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber is part Christian fiction, part science fiction, and part relationship drama. Physically, this book looks beautiful and is definitely indicative of the Biblical references. Unfortunately, the length of the book, the ending, and the unpleasant descriptio...
“That’s me in the cornerThat’s me in the spotlightLosing my religion.”—R.E.M. (1991) For Peter, it’s the chance of a lifetime. He is a Christian minister chosen to be part of a carefully selected group that has established a settlement on another planet. Peter’s role is to reach out to the native,...
bookshelves: published-2014, net-galley, e-book, spring-2014, sci-fi, religion, christian, little-green-men, epistolatory-diary-blog, environmental-issues Read from May 02 to 15, 2014 Crown Publishing. Hogarth,Description: A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, from the ...
Of course, everybody on earth had the power to reshape reality. It was one of the things Peter and Beatrice talked about a lot. The challenge of getting people to grasp that life was only as grim and confining as you perceived it to be. The challenge of getting people to see that all the immutable f...
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