For fiction to be called literature, the story should stay with readers and keep them thinking about it long after the book has been put away. It is safe to say that Sawyer has accomplished both with Calculating God. Rocky Mountain NewsA spaceship lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. An alien being emerges and says, in perfect English, Take me to a paleontologist. Hollus is traveling from star to star on a quest to scientifically prove that God exists. Tom Jericho, the human scientist with whom he ends up working, is convinced there is God. Their debates, and their growing friendship, drive the narrative in this fast-paced, morally and intellectually challenging story of ambitious scope and touching humanity. Calculating God is SF on a grand scale. Sawyer has created a very interesting figure in Tom Jericho, whose scientific mind is the battleground of ideas in the vel. A fine read; an intellectual thriller with real bite. Edmonton Journal