RaveNPRAuthor Dan Brown has used his books to challenge people with questions of God and faith, all while sending readers on globe-trotting adventures that leave you both dizzy and satisfied. And on those fronts, his latest book, Origin, does not disappoint ...will once again follow Professor Robert Langdon, Origin covers new ground for Brown ... of course, Robert Langdon, because he has terribly bad luck, is in the wrong place at the wrong time and gets tangled up in that. And the novel also features a character that is artificial intelligence...the book really asks, what happens when science starts answering the final few questions. Will the gods of today survive? ... trying to create characters who argue two points of view. There are religious people in these books, there are scientists in these books.