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."
46是个奇妙的数字。 在恢宏巨著《计算中的上帝》单行本中,伟大的博物学家罗伯特.J.索耶描述了一个与人类迥异的外星智慧种族——Wreeds,这一族的眼睛长成了360度的一圈。对生物来说,眼睛的结构影响着它们认知世界和自身的方式,从而在最根源就决定了它们的思维。 以多物体...
評分 評分天馬行空的魄力,一口氣讀完纔暢快;埋下的哲學包袱沒能抖齣深度,是佳作不是傑作。
评分天馬行空的魄力,一口氣讀完纔暢快;埋下的哲學包袱沒能抖齣深度,是佳作不是傑作。
评分天馬行空的魄力,一口氣讀完纔暢快;埋下的哲學包袱沒能抖齣深度,是佳作不是傑作。
评分天馬行空的魄力,一口氣讀完纔暢快;埋下的哲學包袱沒能抖齣深度,是佳作不是傑作。
评分看到結尾,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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