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Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
EAN
9780312867133
ISBN
0312867131
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co
ISBN-10
0312867131
ISBN-13
9780312867133
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1649007

Product Key Features

Book Title
Calculating God
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Robert J. Sawyer
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
17.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6.7 in

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Intended Audience
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LCCN
00-027662
Reviews
"It's hard to think of a modern science-fiction author with dreams as vast as those of the internationally acclaimed Robert J. Sawyer."--The Toronto Star "Is Sawyer Canada's answer to Michael Crichton? Very possibly yes."--Montreal Gazette, "It's hard to think of a modern science-fiction author with dreams as vast as those of the internationally acclaimed Robert J. Sawyer."-- The Toronto Star "Is Sawyer Canada's answer to Michael Crichton? Very possibly yes."-- Montreal Gazette
Edition Description
Reprint,Revised edition
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Part One - An Exhibitionary Culture 1. Forerunners of the Century-of-Progress Expositions 2. "Fitter Families for Future Firesides": Eugenics Exhibitions between the Wars Part Two: The Century-of-Progress Expositions 3. Coloniale Moderne 4. The Empire of Science 5. Future Perfect 6. African Americans in the World of Tomorrow 7. The New Day Dawns: The American Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair Conclusion An Essay on Archival Sources Notes Index
Synopsis
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." 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). Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been playing with the evolution of life on each of these planets. From this provocative launch point, Sawyer tells a fast-paced, and morally and intellectually challenging, SF story that just grows larger and larger in scope. The evidence of God's universal existence is not universally well received on Earth, nor even immediately believed. And it reveals nothing of God's nature. In fact. it poses more questions than it answers. 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 sixth cataclysm:? Calculating God is SF on the grand scale. Calculating God is a 2001 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel.
LC Classification Number
PR9199.3.S2533C35

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