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. But the arachnid ET hasn't come aboard a rowboat with the Pope and Stephen Hawking (although His Holiness does request an audience later). 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 that should come as no surprise from this crafty Canadian: in the Nebula Award-winning Terminal Experiment, Sawyer speculated on what would happen if hard evidence were ever found for the human soul in Calculating God, he turns science on its head again when earth is invaded by theists from outer space. Sawyer doesn't exactly make peace with evangelicals on the issue, Calculating God has to be one of the more thoughtful and sympathetic SF portrayals you'll find of religion and intelligent design. Creationists rarely find sympathy in the ranks of science fiction authors-or fans, for that matter.
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