I liked the characters, I liked the storyline, I loved the issues it dealt with and I felt there was a good human and even theological angle running through it. I wanted to know what would happen with the next mission. As a linguist I also liked the linguistic elements and wanted to know more, reallye

If I have a criticism, it is the phonetics of the aliens; too little attention given to the way that a different sort of mouth would be able to produce sound, I suspect. But that’s a minor fault in a good piece of writing.