The Oppenheimer Alternative

"Robert Sawyer is a very well-known science fiction writer. This book came out a few years ago and it traces Oppenheimer’s history. For a lot of it, it’s almost straight history, although dramatized, because it’s a novel. But then, after the war and the atomic bomb, it takes a left turn into an alternate path that might have occurred, building on some things that they had discovered during the Manhattan Project. Because a lot of the research that had been done leading up to the atomic bomb, and that Oppenheimer had been working on, and Enrico Fermi and so forth, was about solar and stellar physics. And without giving too much away, they discover some disturbing things that are going on…and the course of Oppenheimer’s life takes a different turn. It’s extremely well researched and very accurate scientifically. It’s just a great book for anyone interested in Oppenheimer. In an alternate universe, this is maybe how Oppenheimer turned out."