Calculating God

The plot is quite thin, most of the chapters are just the protagonist musing about life and God. The last chapter is a bit abrupt, all of a sudden we mix everything together and all of a sudden the writer writes “God is a programmer”. On the science fiction front, the construction of the octopus-like aliens and numerical recognition abilities of different species are quite inspiring. The reason why many alien civilizations are now deserted are mostly based on the protagonist's hypotheses, lacking any real sense of surprise.