Robert Sawyer grew up in Toronto, the son of two university professors.

He is the only Canadian (and one of only 7 writers in the world) to have won all three of the top international awards for science fiction: the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, the 2003 Hugo Award for Hominids, and the 2006 John W. Sawyer is one of Canada's best known and most successful science fiction writers. 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 sixthĬalculating God is SF on the grand scale.Ĭalculating God is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. The evidence of God's universal existence is not universally well received on Earth, nor even immediately believed. he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets.įrom this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. Both alien races believe this proves the existence of i.e. 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). A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, 'Take me to a paleontologist.' Sawyer.Īn alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Calculating God is the new near-future SF thriller from the popular and award-winning Robert J.

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