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New Novel Pits Darwin Against God, Indiana Jones-Style

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Morrow spent six years writing the book, then a few more trying to sell it. In recent years atheist-oriented films like The Golden Compass andCreation have faced a public backlash, and Morrow isn't sure whether that might have made some publishers leery of the book.

"The publishers who turned it down came up with other reasons," Morrow says in Episode 132 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast. "So I'll never know if they thought it was just too incendiary."

Galapagos Regained is a novel of ideas, full of politics, philosophy, and theology, but it's also a globe-spanning tale bursting with battles, shipwrecks, and narrow escapes. In this Morrow was influenced by the journeys of Darwin himself. Today we tend to picture the famous scientist as a white-bearded patriarch or quiet invalid, but in fact his theories were shaped by a lifetime of wild adventure.

"The young Darwin was indeed this kind of Indiana Jones figure," says Morrow. "And I very much had that in mind when I conceived of Chloe's escapades."

Those escapades, which take Chloe from the halls of Oxford to the Amazon jungle to the rocky shores of the Galapagos, are beset by uncertainty and doubt, but for Morrow the question of God is more clear-cut.


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