Book recommendation: 'Calculating God', by Robert Sawyer. [...]
Ack! I've just gotta jump in here with an anti-recommendation. I read Calculating God last year because it was nominated for a Hugo (I later found out that Sawyer agressively campaigns for the Hugo among his fans; the number of people who nominate for the Hugos is small enough that a small number of devoted fans can get a lousy book onto the ballot), and thought it was one of the worst novels I'd read in a long while. It's got about as much intellectual depth as a mediocre Start Trek episode, and there are points where the author just stacks the deck to get things to come out the way he wants. I'd never read anything be Sawyer before, and after Calculating God I'll never read anything by him again.
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Date: 2002-07-01 09:07 pm (UTC)Ack! I've just gotta jump in here with an anti-recommendation. I read Calculating God last year because it was nominated for a Hugo (I later found out that Sawyer agressively campaigns for the Hugo among his fans; the number of people who nominate for the Hugos is small enough that a small number of devoted fans can get a lousy book onto the ballot), and thought it was one of the worst novels I'd read in a long while. It's got about as much intellectual depth as a mediocre Start Trek episode, and there are points where the author just stacks the deck to get things to come out the way he wants. I'd never read anything be Sawyer before, and after Calculating God I'll never read anything by him again.