The Book of Strange New Things

Short Review: A missionary goes to an alien world to find aliens hungry for Christianity.

The alien setting is useful to take out some of the distractions of missionary enterprise to humans, but this is really more about the missionary's (Peter) marriage and internal issues than the evangelism. The author is actually an atheist, but the Christianity internal to the book is far better than a lot of christian fiction that I have read.

It is really hard to talk about the book without a bunch of spoilers. But the story is more about ideas than action. It does drag a bit in the middle, which is why 4 and not 5 stars, but I do think it is a very well written book.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/book-strange-new-things-michel-faber/