{"id":64439,"date":"2022-10-07T12:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/?post_type=book&#038;p=64439"},"modified":"2022-10-08T14:47:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:47:50","slug":"the-oppenheimer-alternative","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/book\/the-oppenheimer-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oppenheimer Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Writing with \u201ca sense of wonder that hasn\u2019t prevailed since the days of Heinlein\u201d (<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Books in Canada<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">), best-novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Robert\u00a0J. Sawyer brings you \u201ca truly science-fictional work of alternate history\u201d (S.M.\u00a0Stirling).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">J.\u00a0Robert Oppenheimer<\/span>\u00a0and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb,\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Edward Teller<\/span>\u00a0wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion \u2014 the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller\u2019s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system \u2014 including Earth.<\/p>\n<p>After the war ends, Oppenheimer\u2019s physicists combine forces with\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Albert Einstein<\/span>, computing pioneer\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">John von Neumann<\/span>, and rocket designer\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Wernher von Braun<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future.<\/p>\n<p>Meticulously researched and replete with real-life characters and events,\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Oppenheimer Alternative<\/span>\u00a0is a breathtaking adventure through both real and alternate history.<\/p>\n<h4>Advance Praise for\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-italic\">The Oppenheimer Alternative<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">\u201cI loved it!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Lee Smolin<\/span>, author of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Trouble with Physics<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\">\u201cAn imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<span class=\"a-text-bold\">Martin J. Sherwin<\/span>, co-author of\u00a0<span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.\u00a0Robert Oppenheimer<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"a-text-bold\">\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cReally great, a page turner; I was hooked from the beginning to the end. Another fine addition to the Sawyer canon!\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Andre Bormanis<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">, co-executive producer,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The\u00a0Orville<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Cosmos: A\u00a0Spacetime Odyssey<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"a-text-bold\">\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cIncredibly realistic: the characters, locations, the era, and even the science. I felt like I was back in Los Alamos \u2014 and I should know: I worked there! Breathlessly riveting; Sawyer pulls it off masterfully.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Doug Beason<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">, former Associate Laboratory Director,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Los Alamos National Laboratory<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"a-text-bold\">\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u201cI knew many of these physicists, and Sawyer nails them accurately.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Gregory Benford<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">, author of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">The Berlin Project<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":64438,"template":"","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[2200],"genre":[97],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Oppenheimer Alternative - The BookFest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookfest.com\/book\/the-oppenheimer-alternative\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Oppenheimer Alternative - The BookFest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Writing with \u201ca sense of wonder that hasn\u2019t prevailed since the days of Heinlein\u201d (Books in Canada), best-novel Hugo and Nebula Award-winner Robert\u00a0J. 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