# A Case Of Conscience

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- Authors: [James Blish](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-blish)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7320-543-7
- Published: 2014-05-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez S. J., is a part of a four man scientific commission to the planet Lithia, there to study a harmonious society of aliens living on a planets which is a biologist's paradise. He soon finds himself troubled: how can these perfect beings, living in an apparent Eden, have no conception of sin or God? If such a sinless Eden has been created apart from God, then who is responsible? Winner of the Hugo Award for best novel, 1959.