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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.]]> 25883 3.68 4614 681 2000 3 0 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
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