- Fiction, God, Human-alien encounters, Life on other planets
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."
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Epic, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Robert J. Sawyer
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Tor Books, Ediciones B
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781480527331
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“I know, I know-it seemed crazy that the alien had come to Toronto.”
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