Calculating God - Hardcover

Sawyer, Robert J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312867131 ISBN 13: 9780312867133

Publisher: Tor Books, 2000

Synopsis

Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien mother ship, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time (one example of these "cataclysmic events" would be the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. The evidence of God's universal existence is not universally well received on Earth, nor even immediately believed. And it reveals nothing of God's nature. In fact. it poses more questions than it answers. When a supernova explodes out in the galaxy but close enough to wipe out life on all three home-worlds, the big question is, Will God intervene or is this the sixth cataclysm: ? "Calculating God" is SF on the grand scale. "Calculating God" is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.

About this title

Review:

"It's hard to think of a modern science-fiction author with dreams as vast as those of the internationally acclaimed Robert J. Sawyer."--"The Toronto Star" "Is Sawyer Canada's answer to Michael Crichton? Very possibly yes."--"Montreal Gazette"

About the Author:

Robert J. Sawyer is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids, the Nebula Award-winning author of The Terminal Experiment, and the Aurora Award-winning author of FlashForward, basis for the ABC TV series. He is also the author of the WWW series--Wake, Watch and Wonder--and many other books. He was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0312867131
• ISBN 13: 9780312867133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334