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Blurb: “Father Ruiz-Sanchez - Jesuit member of a four-man scientific team investigating a new alien world-was very happy on Lithia, a biologist's paradise. He grew afraid only when it became clear that this extraordinary planet was a paradise in all other respects as well. And this Ruiz knew could only be a trap-a gigantic trap, on a scale such as had never been set for the human race before.
But if he acknowledged that it was a trap-then Ruiz was himself a heretic, cast out and damned for eternity!
In A CASE OF CONSCIENCE, James Blish has written a tour-de-force-not only does he present a compelling moral problem for which he provides a solution (at the same time ingeniously leaving the answer to the reader), but he has created two separate worlds-idyllic Lithia, complete in all its details, and a culture on Earth which has gone below ground, literally, with all the problems inherent in a world of sub-cities. And this is only the framework on which James Blish builds the stories and characters of four extraordinary men - the priest, who works for the greater glory of God; the dedicated scientist, who works for the glory of man; the hard-headed realist, who works only for himself, and the man who is content to ask nothing of any world, or any man.”