num_pages: 338
description: An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien, 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, including events exactly like the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Both alien races believe this proves the existence of God: i.e. he's obviously been manipulating the evolution of life on each of these planets.
language: English
title: Calculating God
titlecomplete: Calculating God
genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Aliens, Science Fiction Fantasy, Audiobook, Fiction, Science Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 9488
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: HOMer Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Prix Aurora Award
category: Best Long-Form Work in English, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Premio Italia
category: Best International Novel
publisher: Tor Science Fiction