具体描述
The book starts out like the setup for some punny science fiction joke: An alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer (named Hollus) asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho. A shocked Jericho finds that not only does life exist on other planets, but that every civilization in the galaxy has experienced extinction events at precisely the same time. Armed with that disconcerting information (and a little help from a grand unifying theory), the alien informs Jericho, almost dismissively, that "the primary goal of modern science is to discover why God has behaved as he has and to determine his methods."
作者简介
Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 19 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won over forty awards for his fiction, including the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
Sawyer was born in Ottawa and is now a resident of Mississauga.
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外星人很可爱，我可以想像，她大大的，肉肉的，性情也很温柔，很友好，可能因为是女性的缘故。她说他们的种族很好战，只是指男性成员。她是个考古学家。 -------------- 考古学家似乎都在博物馆里工作，老友记里面的Ross，好奇的乔治里面的Ted，当然还有小说里面的“我”。Ross...
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用户评价
Too Canadian... Blame Canada!
评分"Have you ever thought about the future? I mean the far future——thousands, or even millions, of years from now."
评分Too Canadian... Blame Canada!
评分"Have you ever thought about the future? I mean the far future——thousands, or even millions, of years from now."
评分"Have you ever thought about the future? I mean the far future——thousands, or even millions, of years from now."
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