CALCULATING GOD
by Best-Novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Robert J. Sawyer
DID GOD CREATE THE UNIVERSE? THE ALIENS THINK THEY CAN PROVE IT!
The beloved Hugo Award-nominated classic about the conflict between science and religion — perfect for fans of Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow and Carl Sagan's Co ntact . An alien walks into Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum and asks to see a paleontologist. Dinosaur expert Tom Jericho is stunned to learn that many worlds experienced the same five great mass extinctions Earth did. The alien believes this proves God tampers with the evolution of life. As Tom faces his own mortality, will his lifelong atheism be shaken by these revelations?
From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, morally and intellectually challenging story that just grows larger and larger in scope.
Calculating God is SF on the grand scale — with a very human heart.
Praise for Calculating God:
"Spectacular; unusually thoughtful SF." — Publishers Weekly "The premise is astounding. A fine read; an intellectual thriller with real bite." — Edmonton Journal "The best science fiction novel of the year." — Denver Rocky Mountain News "An engrossing and nuanced novel, full of food for thought and meat for meditation, the sort of epistemological gavotte that reminds us why God invented science fiction in the first place." — James Morrow "An enthralling story. The climax is an exhilarating and touching glimpse of transcendence." — Starlog "Sawyer ends with grandeur worthy of Arthur C. Clarke." — The Denver Post "An action-packed yet highly philosophical, theological, and ethical story. Well-melded into the fast-paced plot, a wonderful dialogue goes on over the God question and over right, wrong, and the purpose of life. It's guaranteed to expand the minds of believers and non-believers alike." — Tom Harpur in The Toronto Star "Sawyer once again demonstrates his wild talent for innovative, iconoclastic storytelling as he relates a thought-provoking, sobering, yet wryly compassionate tale of one man's discovery of timelessness even as his own time is running out." — Library Journal "Exciting and emotional. Sawyer smoothly combines ethical questions and comical dialogue in a highly absorbing tale." — Booklist " Calculating God is the most captivating work of science fiction I've read since Carl Sagan's Contact ." — Victoria Times Colonist Robert J. Sawyer , a member of The Order of Canada and a Globe and Mail , Maclean's , and #1 Locus bestseller, is the author of 25 other novels, including The Downloaded , The Oppenheimer Alternative , Quantum Night , and FlashForward , the basis for the ABC TV series. He lives just outside Toronto.
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