Calculating God - by Robert J Sawyer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In the near future, an alien craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus relates to paleontologist Tom Jericho that the Earth, Hollus's home planet, and the planet of another alien species all experienced the same five cataclysmic events that prove the existence of God.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J. Sawyer. </b> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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: ? <p/><i>Calculating God</i> is SF on the grand scale. <p/><i>Calculating God</i> is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"An enthralling story.... [The] climax [is] an exhilarating and touching glimpse of transcendence." --<i>Starlog</i> <p/>"Vigorous speculation...Sawyer ends with some grandeur worthy of vintage Arthur C. Clarke." --<i>The Denver Post</i> <p/>"Sawyer is first and foremost a writer of ideas, some concept that can drive a narrative through to a grand conclusion, one that remains true to science but often achieves that sense of transcendence that Samuel R. Delany once said was the sine qua non of science fiction. This is Sawyer's great strength, and it's fully present in <i>Calculating God</i>....A intellectual thriller with real bite." --<i>The Edmonton Journal</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Robert J. Sawyer</b> is the Hugo Award-winning author of <i>Hominids</i>, the Nebula Award-winning author of <i>The Terminal Experiment</i>, and the Aurora Award-winning author of <i>FlashForward</i>, basis for the ABC TV series. He is also the author of the WWW series--<i>Wake</i>, <i>Watch</i> and <i>Wonder</i>--and many other books. He was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto.</p>
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