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Rollback
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765349743
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0765349744
Label: Tor Science Fiction
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: February 05, 2008
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Studio: Tor Science Fiction
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Editorial Review:
Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens. Thirty-eight years later, a second message is received and Sarah, now 87, 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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Rollback to the Early Years
If you've read Mindscan, then Rollback will open so many fresh doors in the realm of living forever. A definite page turner. Sawyer has done his research and presented it in an interesting way.
Rating: - A science fiction story on a human scale
This is one of the best science fiction books I have read in a long time. It is the story of an elderly couple, both members of which undergo a rejuvenation process. Unfortunately it only works for one of them and a large part of the story is how the couple copes with what is now a large difference in biological ages between them. The author, Robert Sawyer, deals with this issue in a very personal, very emotional way. Against this backdrop, is the story how one member of the couple is involved in ... Read More
Rating:  - An easy, enjoyable read
I only rated it as 3 stars because I have to save higher ratings for truly memorable SciFi. This was a good story, it held my interest and had a satisfying ending. I'd recommend it, but it's not one of those books that you have to read if you're a Science Fiction enthusiast.
Rating:  - The last Sawyer I'll read
The first book of his I read was Hominid. It was very good and enjoyable, how unfortunate for me. 2-3 times a year, have books shipped to me overseas, and my last one had three of his. The Humans was a cheap, "Quick, write a sequel to cash in" book. The Golden Fleece left me feeling I'm the one who was fleeced.
Now I've read Rollback. All Sawyer did was take a very superficial view at a bunch of social issues while dropping as many product names and cultural tags as possible. It looks ... Read More
Rating: - The Missing Years
Sawyer is one of the most frustrating writers around. His plots with their strange ideas border on brilliance yet there is always an element of slapstick poking through. CALCULATING GOD was one of the deepest, most poignant sci-fi tales around yet it was presented in a comedic fashion that almost (but not quite) destroyed the overall book. It's as if the author doesn't truth his writing without the joke. In ROLLBACK, a novel of genetic engineering and alien contact, all the previous problems are ... Read More
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