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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
The Last Missioner by John Paul Russo is set in a future Earth transformed by catastrophe. Humanity survives on Divine Manna, a supernatural food produced during a ritual in the walled city of Atalan Jur. Twelve-year-old John Micah Leers XIV has just entered training in that ritual when the Noochi, the people who grow the grain, begin withdrawing from the shared religious system. Their departure threatens every surviving nation with starvation. At the same time, John Micah hears a voice calling him beyond the city, where he is drawn into a mission connected to the origin of the Manna. As he travels across the altered world, Satan tries to redirect him, while a former classmate is recruited to follow him and prevent him from reaching the place his unknown calling is leading him.
John Paul Russo accomplishes the near impossible in his imaginative The Last Missioner: he makes quantum science not just easy to picture, like a father drawing water from the air while completing an ordinary household task, but he also makes it wildly entertaining. This is Christian fiction, and there is never any doubt about it in the writing and the story itself. For example, in John Micah’s priestly school, each student has a name taken from biblical apostles and prophets while training to serve Jesus Christ, called the Primary in the story's timeline. Russo has a gift for describing landscapes, and the world opens beautifully once John Micah travels beyond his home. Russo expands the adventure from places like a mountain monastery that prepares him for a frozen hemisphere where the sun never rises, to the dark side of Earth, where a glowing Charterhouse stands alone among snow-covered mountains in endless blackness. I gladly recommend The Last Missioner to readers everywhere who want brilliant Christ-centric science fiction.
