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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I say something similar to this in every review I write of a [a:Robert J. Sawyer|25883|Robert J. Sawyer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1224975910p2/25883.jpg] book: He imbues his stories with a thoroughness and thoughtfulness that leaves me in awe. In [b:Rollback|264940|Rollback|Robert J. Sawyer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1390071421s/264940.jpg|256847], he takes up the issues associated with curing aging, both on a social and on a personal level. In a single paragraph, he completely upended and enriched my perception of one of the characters. Sawyer's skills as a science fiction author are breathtaking. If you don't read this book, read a different one of his; any one. You won't regret it. La doctora Sarah Halifax logró descifrar el primer mensaje recibido de los alienígenas de Sigma Draconis. Treinta y ocho años después, cuando ella ya es casi nonagenaria, llega la respuesta. Y también debe ser descifrada... si Sarah vive el tiempo suficiente. Un millonario interesado en el programa SETI ofrece pagar el costoso tratamiento de rejuvenecimiento ("vuelta atrás") para Sarah, y esta exige que su esposo Don, con quien lleva sesenta años casada, también reciba el tratamiento. El proceso funciona a la perfección en el caso de Don, que vuelve a la fortaleza física de los veinticinco años, pero no con Sarah, condenada a una muerte demasiado cercana en el tiempo. Junto a un Don sorprendido de su nueva vitalidad y sus nuevas posibilidades, Sarah debe luchar contra el tiempo para repetir su viejo éxito: descifrar un mensaje extraterrestre que, esta vez, además, ha sido cifrado voluntariamente. Sin olvidar las nuevas dificultades que la pareja deberá afrontar... De nuevo una interesantísima exploración ética y moral, esta vez a escala humana y también cósmica, sobre la vida y el papel de la tecnología en el desarrollo futuro del ser humano. This book does have the seeds of a lot of interesting ideas- ideas about how we might want to communicate with aliens, how and why they might want to communicate with us, and some thought on how physical rejuvenation of our bodies poses some social and moral questions. However none of these ideas gets much development, and the story is basically trivial Hollywood style entertainment. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Dr. Sarah Halifax decoded the first-ever radio transmission received from aliens thirty-eight years ago. Now, 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 heroically struggles to figure out what a signal from the stars contains before she dies. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The idea of SETI contact and the rollback to youth was fascinating but the execution was a heavy handed disaster.
It was like discussing philosophy with a Lunkhead like Fred Flintstone. ( )