false <![CDATA[Calculating God]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1217216646m/264950.jpg 264950 8 The provocative new science fiction thriller from the Nebula Award-winning author of The Terminal Experiment. Robert J. Sawyer, delivers a powerful and resolutely human speculation about genetics, human origins, and the existence of faith and God. An alien shuttle craft lands outside a museum. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus who says, "Take me to your paleontologist." The paleontologist, Tom Jericho, helps Hollus investigate Earth's evolutionary history. It seems that Earth and Hollus' home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling with Hollus, all experienced the same five cataclysmic events at about the same time, including events exactly like 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, morally and intellectually challenging science fiction story that just grows larger and larger in scope. Calculating God is science fiction on the grand scale and ending with a cataclysmic climax worthy of Arthur C. Clarke at his most cosmic. 2207588 book 2000 Calculating God total:512|5:116|4:195|3:156|2:32|1:13| 512 1905 738 83 5 3 false false Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 18:50:05 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 00:38:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Sep 26 09:27:56 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 09:29:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Jun 06 17:14:58 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 00:34:24 -0700 2007
No. Seriously. Wow.

This guy? Deep.

Sawyer challenges a lot of assumptions in this book. About god, about evolution, about astronomy and about paleontologists.

"Take me to your paleontologist." Once again, Sawyer does aliens in a way that m...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 16:57:05 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 19:56:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 22:56:43 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 23:37:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Dec 02 17:29:54 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 07:20:09 -0800 2008
What if aliens came to Earth and said, "Hey, did you know there's a God? Oh, we also have scientific evidence of it."

That would be sort of troubling.

And so it was.

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First what I liked: most of the characters where charming, particularly Hollus the main alien character. I liked that it was set in Toronto. There was a bunch of neat...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 16:44:08 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:30:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 23:36:05 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 09:38:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 01:21:55 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 19:57:14 -0700 2009
The novel intertwines thre...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 13:39:41 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 05:24:35 -0700 2009
Basically this novel is a science fiction novel only because that is what pigeon hole the publishers have stuck Sawyer ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Sep 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 10:43:10 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 09:05:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 17 19:10:39 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 10:59:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sat Sep 26 09:01:21 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 09:06:49 -0700 2009
I read this as a teenager and was so smitten that I actually wrote the author...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Dec 04 14:35:15 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 14:39:28 -0800 2008 2
Robert Sawyer is a very successful Canadian science fiction writers. He is the only Canadian (and one of o...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sat Jul 25 21:08:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 21:08:29 -0700 2009 seeking proof for the
existence of God. I wanted
to like this book, but
the characters were so flat
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My brother had to read this book in a university course and thought I migh...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Thu Jan 31 10:47:10 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 31 10:47:17 -0800 2008 Calculating God reminds me so much of Arthur C. Clarke's novels, where we examine our place in the universe and what the heck it all means. T...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=264950