I do really like the idea of the bureaucratic discussion around a space pope literally dooming the species to extinction. I generally lean towards the bleakest ending possible myself taste wise as a reader haha

Yeah I just reread myself to see if I’d missed something- can defo see why it could be remembered that way. Glad you started the discussion about it- due a reread I think!

That’s definitely not described in the edition I read or the audiobook I listened to. I thought the whole point Miller was making was that the Quo Peragrinatur escaped, leaving mankind one step ahead of the devil again?

It was a bleak enough ending without exploding spacecraft!

I thought the spaceship made it? Or at least I don’t remember reading about it’s destruction