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.
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."
这是我来上海后唯一看完的一本书,小说的前面部分远比后面的精彩,到了本小说真正幻的部分,我居然开始兴味索然。 显然作者是个比较有野心的家伙:P,他在大部分地方垒出了不少资料,说得如此证据确凿,仿佛我看的并不是一部小说,而是那杆“正在冒烟的枪”,比方很多“证据”...
評分 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"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."
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."
评分看到結尾,10年後就想哭瞭,不用說400年,傢人都不在瞭,也不知道地球,人性還在不在。"your earth still outshines the sol"是多麼瞭不起的事啊!
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