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.
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很多科幻迷驚訝於這本書在科學、科技上的創見,不過,老夫作為一名硃子學者,對其上帝觀、宇宙觀,持保留態度,不贊同也不批評。感覺作者還是為瞭寫科幻而科幻,否則非此則不足以成文一般,當不得真。若果真認其為“科學”,就有點恐怖瞭。嘿嘿,從這本書裏,恰恰可以看見西方...
評分 評分 評分作為科幻,這本書的idea並不新鮮。它好就好在三觀端正。這纔是在寫小說。從細節裏所看到的是真正的,值得尊敬的科學傢,有好奇心、尊嚴、同時也是脆弱的人。外星人並不是都是來侵略的,去他x的侵略,去他x的先見政府首腦,我們隻是來地球看一看化石,為瞭好奇心。好奇心是什麼...
圖書標籤: 科幻 科幻小說 英文原版 羅伯特·J·索耶 加拿大 宗教 小說 英語閱讀
給文科生看的咩?文科生就是有二十三個手指頭的外星人啊。
評分英文版沒看過,但是中文版的確是體驗非凡啊
評分結尾差強人意,前麵大篇幅的對話還是很好看的。這書有些年數瞭吧,如果當時就看不知道會不會有開腦洞的感覺。近年科普科幻看得多,就覺得有些中規中矩瞭。
評分給文科生看的咩?文科生就是有二十三個手指頭的外星人啊。
評分唉呀。這可是我第一本自己花錢買的“英文原版書”呀。不過字好小,書也小,紙質也不如那些硬皮版的書,比較粗糙,好在方便攜帶且便宜!裏麵的生物學和天文學名詞讓我極其抓狂,所以其實是中英對照的看完的。但是,仍然是一本很感人,很有懸念,也可以算是比較好的解釋瞭地球和生命的存在,書中也很係統的列舉瞭一大堆進化論,生物學及天文學的知識,還是很受教的。也讓聽著進化論長大的我很是反省瞭一般。當然最感人的,還是主角的人生故事。
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