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«Backwards» is A fun, entertaining, well-narrated book that conveys knowledge and makes you think. What more could you ask of a book?
The plot revolves around the decoding of alien messages that reach Earth. The first message is decoded by a young SETI researcher, who is also responsible for sending her response. 38 years later, a second message arrives and again, the SETI researcher, this time elderly but having undergone a rejuvenation treatment (which has failed and left her on the verge of death from old age), decodes it, while her husband, whose treatment has worked well, explores his new youth.
The book discusses the role of technology in the future development of human beings, moral questions about treatments to extend people's longevity, abortion, the existence of God and many other moral dilemmas that Sawyer has accustomed us to raising in his books.
Like the rest of Robert J. Sawyer's works, "Backwards" is highly recommended and worth the few hours it takes to read.
