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SCIENCE FICTION WRITER  ROBERT J. SAWYER  Best Novel Hugo and Nebula Award Winner SFWRITER.COM > Novels > Calculating God > Idea for Calculating God   Writing Calculating God     by Robert J. Sawyer   Copyright © 2001 by Robert J. Sawyer All Rights Reserved The idea for Calculating God has been in my head since 1983. I was 23, an atheist with a freshly minted degree in broadcasting, when a coalition of faith groups applying to the Canadian government for a broadcasting license hired me as their staff writer. And I had one of those "the world is more complex than I thought" revelations that are so common at that age. I'd assumed the I'd be dealing with fools comforting themselves with simplistic stories. But I was wrong. The people I met were witty, intelligent, wise, funny (sometimes profanely so), and well-read. I realized that belief in God was something many very bright people felt strongly. Over the intervening years, I found many other people I greatly admired — mainstream cosmologists, physicists, even evolutionists — talking about intelligent design, and the evidence they saw for a creator. And as I read, and thought, and grew, Calculating God took shape. When I finally did come to set it down on paper, I wrote it faster than any book I'd ever done — it was clearly ready to be born. I'm delighted (and, frankly, a bit surprised) that such a personal work has been so popular.   More Good Reading   Another essay about writing Calculating God More About Calculating God Writing Flashforward Writing The Quintaglio Ascension trilogy Writing The Terminal Experiment Writing Frameshift Writing Illegal Alien Writing "Lost in the Mail" Writing "You See But You Do Not Observe" Writing "The Shoulders of Giants"

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