Grainger implies Peter may have been hallucinating as he was severely dehydrated. The following day, he is retrieved by Grainger, the USIC pharmacist with whom he is closest. The linguist warns him that the USIC workers are not as harmonious as they appear and that Earth is dying. In distress, Peter decides to go back to the Oasan village in order to die, but he accidentally finds the village they abandoned before he arrived, where he meets the linguist that was his predecessor. Peter believes he has been poisoned, but nevertheless he goes back to USIC, where he is treated for his wounds and receives a message from Bea telling him that there is no God.

The community is horrified and treat him as though he is dying. While helping the Oasans with a harvest, which they trade with the USIC population for medicine, Peter receives a terrible bite from an Oasan pest. Peter, whose life is full with his missionary work, feels distant from Bea and begins to find it difficult to recall her face and their life together, instead focusing on integrating himself into the Oasan community. After a few months, she also informs Peter that she is pregnant with his child, conceived on the last night he was with her. Though Bea's initial messages are full of love, they also include information on severe natural disasters caused by climate change, including flooding and famine that have happened since Peter left. On his brief trips back to the base camp where the engineers and scientist who run USIC on Oasis live, he tries to contact Bea using a Shoot, a message system which allows him to communicate back on Earth. Peter sets to work trying to build a church for the Jesus Lovers and trying to live amongst them. Peter expects to find hostility when meeting the natives, but he finds instead that they are extremely welcoming, already speak English very well and are passionate devotees of the Christian faith, referring to themselves as Jesus Lover One, Two, et cetera.

It is gradually revealed that rather than being a missionary in a different country, he has been hired by USIC, a private American corporation, to preach to the population of a distant planet, Oasis. Peter Leigh, an English pastor, decides to leave his wife Beatrice in order to be a missionary. The work was first published in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2014, and concerns an English pastor who is sent to the planet of Oasis to teach its reclusive native inhabitants about Christianity.Īmazon Studios released a pilot episode of a television adaptation, Oasis, in March 2017. The Book of Strange New Things is a 2014 science fiction novel by Dutch-born author Michel Faber.

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