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Rollback - Couverture souple

Sawyer, Robert

 
9780765332400: Rollback
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 076533240X ISBN 13 : 9780765332400
Editeur : Tor Books, 2012

Synopsis

Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too...if she lives long enough. A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollback - a hugely expensive experimental rejuvenation procedure. She accepts on condition that Don, her husband of sixty years, gets a rollback, too. The process works for Don, making him physically twenty-five again. But in a tragic twist, the rollback fails for Sarah, leaving her in her eighties. While Don tries to deal with his newfound youth and the suddenly vast age gap between him and his wife, Sarah struggles to do again what she'd done once before: figure out what a signal from the stars contains. Exploring morals and ethics on both human and cosmic scales, "Rollback" is another triumph for Hugo and Nebula Award - winner Robert J. Sawyer.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now eighty-seven, may hold the key to deciphering this one, too...if she lives long enough. A wealthy industrialist offers to pay for Sarah to have a rollback - a hugely expensive experimental rejuvenation procedure. She accepts on condition that Don, her husband of sixty years, gets a rollback, too. The process works for Don, making him physically twenty-five again. But in a tragic twist, the rollback fails for Sarah, leaving her in her eighties. While Don tries to deal with his newfound youth and the suddenly vast age gap between him and his wife, Sarah struggles to do again what she'd done once before: figure out what a signal from the stars contains. Exploring morals and ethics on both human and cosmic scales, "Rollback" is another triumph for Hugo and Nebula Award - winner Robert J. Sawyer.

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Praise for "Rollback"

"This is what SF is supposed to be about: Discovery as carried out by real people. A joy to read; a superb novel." --Jack McDevitt, author of "Odyssey"

"Likeable characters facing big ethical dilemmas...[a] smoothly readable near-future SF novel."
--"Publisher's Weekly", starred review

"Sawyer's near-future speculative fiction reveals many advances in medicine and robotics. But it's the humanness of the closeness (and the distance) between Sarah and Don that makes "Rollback" an early candidate for sci-fi book of the year." --"The Kansas City Star"

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Éditeur
Tor Books
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
076533240X
ISBN 13 
9780765332400
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
PILOT CORPORATION OF EUROPE
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