Books like Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
A strange alien ship appears outside the Royal Ontario Museum, unleashing a six‑legged, two‑armed visitor who speaks fluent English and asks to be taken to a paleontologist. While scientists investigate the creature, revelations surface that Earth, the alien’s home planet, and another species’ world all experienced identical cataclysmic events—such as a meteor strike that ended dinosaur life—at the same times. The three races interpret these coincidences as proof of a divine force guiding evolution. As a galactic supernova threatens to erase all three worlds, the story explores whether a higher power will intervene, raising more questions about the nature of God than it answers. The novel expands swiftly from a single encounter into a sweeping, ethically and intellectually charged sci‑fi narrative.
First publish date: 2000
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Robert J. Sawyer
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