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.
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讀後感
印象最深刻的就是索耶接触的这个女外星人能够自己直接跟自己对视：左眼看着右眼，右眼看着左眼，两只眼睛对视了一下。当然，接下来必然是：相视一笑，心领神会。 在外星人这个问题上，我觉得难题之一是设想外星人是什么样子。除了Lovecraft，很多人设想出来的外星人都是地球上...
評分据说很多人都不喜欢这本仅仅“惜败”于哈里波特的书，这本书说实在的确实没有多少票房吸引力，题材类似〈第三类接触〉一类的外星人交往小说，缺少新奇感，又偏重于和外星人探讨人生，习俗，技术，宇宙规律一类偏硬的东西，人类主角不过是个不怎么得志的中年学究，其实看得有点...
評分作为科幻，这本书的idea并不新鲜。它好就好在三观端正。这才是在写小说。从细节里所看到的是真正的，值得尊敬的科学家，有好奇心、尊严、同时也是脆弱的人。外星人并不是都是来侵略的，去他x的侵略，去他x的先见政府首脑，我们只是来地球看一看化石，为了好奇心。好奇心是什么...
用戶評價
如果不是哈裏波特,雨果奬就是它的瞭。可憐的羅伯特·J·索耶.
评分唉呀。這可是我第一本自己花錢買的“英文原版書”呀。不過字好小，書也小，紙質也不如那些硬皮版的書，比較粗糙，好在方便攜帶且便宜！裏麵的生物學和天文學名詞讓我極其抓狂，所以其實是中英對照的看完的。但是，仍然是一本很感人，很有懸念，也可以算是比較好的解釋瞭地球和生命的存在，書中也很係統的列舉瞭一大堆進化論，生物學及天文學的知識，還是很受教的。也讓聽著進化論長大的我很是反省瞭一般。當然最感人的，還是主角的人生故事。
评分神，生命和宇宙
评分freaking awesome 真不該輸給哈利波特啊
评分給文科生看的咩？文科生就是有二十三個手指頭的外星人啊。
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