Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian science fiction writer. He has had 19 novels published, and his short fiction has appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Amazing Stories, On Spec, Nature, and many anthologies. Sawyer has won over forty awards for his fiction, including the Nebula Award (1995), the Hugo Award (2003), and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award (2006).
Sawyer was born in Ottawa and is now a resident of Mississauga.
The book starts out like the setup for some punny science fiction joke: An alien walks into a museum and asks if he can see a paleontologist. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). Landing at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the spacefarer (named Hollus) asks to compare notes on mass extinctions with resident dino-scientist Thomas Jericho. A shocked Jericho finds that not only does life exist on other planets, but that every civilization in the galaxy has experienced extinction events at precisely the same time. Armed with that disconcerting information (and a little help from a grand unifying theory), the alien informs Jericho, almost dismissively, that "the primary goal of modern science is to discover why God has behaved as he has and to determine his methods."
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外星人很可愛,我可以想像,她大大的,肉肉的,性情也很溫柔,很友好,可能因為是女性的緣故。她說他們的種族很好戰,隻是指男性成員。她是個考古學傢。 -------------- 考古學傢似乎都在博物館裏工作,老友記裏麵的Ross,好奇的喬治裏麵的Ted,當然還有小說裏麵的“我”。Ross...
評分印象最深刻的就是索耶接觸的這個女外星人能夠自己直接跟自己對視:左眼看著右眼,右眼看著左眼,兩隻眼睛對視瞭一下。當然,接下來必然是:相視一笑,心領神會。 在外星人這個問題上,我覺得難題之一是設想外星人是什麼樣子。除瞭Lovecraft,很多人設想齣來的外星人都是地球上...
評分1、設計文檔根本沒有。 2、應用編程接口(API)幫助根本沒有,完全依靠逆嚮工程。 3、係統不穩定,經常大規模崩潰,最近一次崩潰在6500萬年前。 4、到處都是被注釋掉的死代碼。 5、原始設計文檔、源代碼和可執行代碼都不見瞭,隻剩下不靠譜的傳說。 6、大量使用復製和黏貼...
評分因為木星和月球這種特殊的存在,我一直以為我們是被某種外星生命控製的。我不太相信上帝,即使是科學範疇之內的上帝我也不相信。我寜願相信是外星生命。 小說很有意思,特彆是最後的一部分。主人公從很快就要死去轉變到比所有人(地球人)都要長壽,讓我覺得很新奇。沒...
評分圖書標籤: 羅伯特·索耶 科幻 lang:en fiction Sci-fi
2015年第一本,北師大迴來之後重讀此書,能不感慨。這也是我讀過的第一本原著。為瞭恢復英語水平,每天20頁,不再為瞭學英語而看原著瞭。純粹是享受。
評分2015年第一本,北師大迴來之後重讀此書,能不感慨。這也是我讀過的第一本原著。為瞭恢復英語水平,每天20頁,不再為瞭學英語而看原著瞭。純粹是享受。
評分Too Canadian... Blame Canada!
評分看到結尾,10年後就想哭瞭,不用說400年,傢人都不在瞭,也不知道地球,人性還在不在。"your earth still outshines the sol"是多麼瞭不起的事啊!
評分看到結尾,10年後就想哭瞭,不用說400年,傢人都不在瞭,也不知道地球,人性還在不在。"your earth still outshines the sol"是多麼瞭不起的事啊!
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