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Factoring God - Robert J. Sawyer Book Review

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Review Summaries
"In Factoring Humanity, a paleontologist befriends his work partner, who happens to be an alien. Three different races are combining their efforts to search for God, and are trying to communicate with him/her/it. They believe that the universe had to be created, and couldn't have existed without a godlike figure."
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Plot
Tone of book - sensitive (sigh....)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Inner Struggle Yes
Plotlet: - search for identity/new understanding
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scholar
Age: - 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - physically sick

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - very explicit references to deaths and torture
scientific jargon? (SF only) - quite a lot of techical jargon
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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