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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读后感
很多科幻迷惊讶于这本书在科学、科技上的创见，不过，老夫作为一名朱子学者，对其上帝观、宇宙观，持保留态度，不赞同也不批评。感觉作者还是为了写科幻而科幻，否则非此则不足以成文一般，当不得真。若果真认其为“科学”，就有点恐怖了。嘿嘿，从这本书里，恰恰可以看见西方...
评分索耶的小说真的可以称作是幻想科学，在少量幻想的基础上，通过严格的逻辑推理，得到非比寻常的结论。这本书绝对称得上是硬科幻的经典之作了。故事很简单，作者娓娓道来，科学观和价值理念润物细无声。 ps，我对这本书中的生命游戏程序很感兴趣，写了一段matlab代码，可以直接...
评分 评分计算中的上帝，Calculating God。罗伯特`索耶，我以前不知道这位作者。不过书却是很好看的，于我，阅读的流畅度和快感，当在星船伞兵之上。书中多次提到一些事例，以证明这个宇宙的许多常数，增一分则太多，减一分则太少。虽然是借外星人之口娓娓道来，而不是自然而然的发生在...
用户评价
天马行空的魄力，一口气读完才畅快；埋下的哲学包袱没能抖出深度，是佳作不是杰作。
评分Too Canadian... Blame Canada!
评分2015年第一本，北师大回来之后重读此书，能不感慨。这也是我读过的第一本原著。为了恢复英语水平，每天20页，不再为了学英语而看原著了。纯粹是享受。
评分天马行空的魄力，一口气读完才畅快；埋下的哲学包袱没能抖出深度，是佳作不是杰作。
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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