The Sparrow
originally aired on FX
The Sparrow (1996) is the first novel by author Mary Doria Russell. It won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, James Tiptree Jr. Award, Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis and the British Science Fiction Association Award. It was followed by a sequel, Children of God, in 1998. In the year 2060, only one of the crew, the Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz, survives to return to Earth.