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Calculating God
Published 2000 by Tor Books · 334 pages
Hugo · 2001
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11 award entries · 9 books · 2 wins · 1996–2010
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Synopsis
An alien scientist walks into the Royal Ontario Museum and asks to see a paleontologist. The alien has evidence that a god — or at least a cosmic intelligence — has been engineering mass extinctions across multiple worlds simultaneously.
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