Rollback

Rollback
by Robert J. Sawyer

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Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-02-05
ISBN: 0765349744
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

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Book Review: Why so anti-American?
Summary: 1 Stars

While the story starts with an interesting twist on what aliens would actually send in a transmission, the author has a very annoying habit of American bashing that distracts from whatever point he is trying to make. When Sawyer talks about walking on the moon it is an achievement all mankind should be proud of, but mention health care and it is the failings of American medicine that are discussed. While this bias was not central to the story, it was annoying enough that I didn't bother to finish the book.

Of course there is undoubtedly a market for American bashing so if you are looking for something that sticks its nose up at the "Land of the free and the home of the brave" this book might be for you.

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Summary of Rollback

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.

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