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Shard of Eden
Book • 2025
Shard of Eden is a science-fiction novel by Eric Sammons that imagines an early 22nd-century world recovering from a war with artificial intelligence.
In a world where the Catholic Church exercises significant global influence, the Pope commissions a faster-than-light mission to investigate a strange signal from 1,200 light-years away.
The narrative follows Captain Dominic Rourke, a veteran of the AI wars, and the ship's chaplain, Father Mateo, as they confront theological and moral questions about intelligent alien life, original sin, and redemption.
Sammons weaves themes of faith, mercy, and human fallenness into a plot that explores AI, space travel, and sacramental theology.
The book aims to be good storytelling first while engaging Catholic theological questions about incarnation, soul, and evangelization in a cosmic context.
In a world where the Catholic Church exercises significant global influence, the Pope commissions a faster-than-light mission to investigate a strange signal from 1,200 light-years away.
The narrative follows Captain Dominic Rourke, a veteran of the AI wars, and the ship's chaplain, Father Mateo, as they confront theological and moral questions about intelligent alien life, original sin, and redemption.
Sammons weaves themes of faith, mercy, and human fallenness into a plot that explores AI, space travel, and sacramental theology.
The book aims to be good storytelling first while engaging Catholic theological questions about incarnation, soul, and evangelization in a cosmic context.
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Fr. Robert McTeigue
Eric Sammons
Catholic Science Fiction? (Eric Sammons) 3/12/26
