The Oppenheimer Alternative

""Well-drawn alternate history, rigorous SF thriller, social commentary, redemption narrative--The Oppenheimer Alternative reimagines one of the most influential lives of the twentieth century. Well worth reading. I loved it!""--Lee Smolin, bestselling author of The Trouble with Physics ""An imaginative restructuring of a phantasmagoric life into an alternative phantasmagorical story. Oppenheimer fans will be intrigued.""--Martin J. Sherwin, co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer ""The feel and detail of the Manhattan Project figures is deep and well done. I knew many of these physicists, and Sawyer nails them accurately.""--Gregory Benford, author of The Berlin Project ""I enjoyed it tremendously! Really great, a page turner. I was hooked from the beginning to the end. Another fine addition to the Sawyer canon!""--Andre Bormanis, co-executive producer, The Orville and Cosmos ""An expert and engrossing knitting of the threads of history, with genuine characters of the mid 20th Century, to weave out a compulsive fictional narrative.""--Jem Rolls, author of the play The Inventor of All Things ""Sawyer portrays brilliantly and poignantly the struggles of the scientists who started it all and were consequently obliged to bear an unbearable burden.""--James Christie, Chair, Project Ploughshares, member organization of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons ""Sawyer has outdone himself! No one could have taken on this project with such gusto and with such a search for the truth as this outstanding author. I've never read such a complete and thrilling account of Oppenheimer's world.""--Jonas Saul, author of the Sarah Roberts series