New Robert J. Sawyer Novel Available Now

I just got the monthly newsletter from Arc Manor and was surprised, and pleased, to see that they have a special pre-order for Robert J. Sawyer's new book, The Oppenheimer Alternative. It turns out that if you order the e-book edition, you can get it now for $4.99 USD. So I now have it, and it's going into the queue on my Kindle (which means I might get to it sometime in the fall). You can also order the trade paperback, but it doesn't ship until June.

This is the blurb from Arc Manor's newsletter:

This is a nail-biting new science fiction thriller from Robert J. Sawyer; the all-time worldwide leader in award-wins as a science fiction or fantasy novelist.

On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history…with a twist.

While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion―the mechanism that powers the sun.

Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system―including Earth.

As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan, Oppenheimer's team, plus Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, stay together―the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future

I am looking forward to reading it; it's an alternate history novel, which puts it into one of my favourite subgenres of SFF. If it's as good as his last novel, Quantum Night, it should be very entertaining.