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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 930207" data-attributes="member: 63">For the first time in a while, I bought a novel from the local bookstore.&nbsp; A couple of years ago I read Far Seer, Fossil Hunter, and Foreigner, by Rober J. Sawyer.&nbsp; They were about a race of sentient dinosaurs that developed after they were transplanted from earth to a distant world by an alien race.&nbsp; The aliens wanted both mammals and dinos to have a chance at sentience, so they took the dinos away and slammed a meteor into earth to give the mammals some help.&nbsp; Very interesting stories, with some fascinating insights into the type of culture that would develop when your ancestors were flesh-ripping carnivores.Then, a couple of weeks ago I saw Sawyer had a new book out, Calculating God.&nbsp; To give you an idea of what it's about, in the first 10 pages, an alien spacecraft lands in Toronto, outside the natural history museum.&nbsp; The alien piloting the ship (a vaguely spider-like critter) goes into the museum, walks up to the security desk, and says in perfect English, &quot;Take me to your paleontologist.&quot;After that, I've got a lot of reading to research real-world magical traditions for a d20 book I'm writing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 930207, member: 63"] For the first time in a while, I bought a novel from the local bookstore. A couple of years ago I read [i]Far Seer[/i], [i]Fossil Hunter[/i], and [i]Foreigner[/i], by Rober J. Sawyer. They were about a race of sentient dinosaurs that developed after they were transplanted from earth to a distant world by an alien race. The aliens wanted both mammals and dinos to have a chance at sentience, so they took the dinos away and slammed a meteor into earth to give the mammals some help. Very interesting stories, with some fascinating insights into the type of culture that would develop when your ancestors were flesh-ripping carnivores. Then, a couple of weeks ago I saw Sawyer had a new book out, [i]Calculating God[/i]. To give you an idea of what it's about, in the first 10 pages, an alien spacecraft lands in Toronto, outside the natural history museum. The alien piloting the ship (a vaguely spider-like critter) goes into the museum, walks up to the security desk, and says in perfect English, "Take me to your paleontologist." After that, I've got a lot of reading to research real-world magical traditions for a d20 book I'm writing. [/QUOTE]

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