Flashforward
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- ISBN13: 9780765363831
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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FLASHFORWARD
Two minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the world
Suddenly, lacking warning, all seven billion people on Planet black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each additional.
But that’s the least of the survivors’ challenges. During the blackout, everyone veteran a glimpse of what his or her future holds—and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.
What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Try to change things, or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In Flashforward, Nobel-hungry physicists conducting an unimaginably high-energy conduct experiment accidentally induce a global consciousness shift. In an instant, everyone on Planet is “flashed forwards” 21 years, experiencing several minutes of the future. But while everyone is, factually, out of their minds, their bodies drop unconscious; when the world reawakens, car wrecks, botched surgeries, falls, and additional mishaps add up to massive death and destruction.
Slowly, as recovery efforts continue, people realize that during the Flashforward (as it comes to be called) they veteran a vision of the future. The range of visions is astounding–persons who would be asleep in the future saw psychedelic dream landscapes, while others saw nothing at all (presumably they’d be dead). But persons who saw everyday life 20 years hence have to come to grips with evidence of dreams forsaken (or realized). Soon, the physicists who caused the Flashforward are struggling to help the world choose whether the future is changeable–and whether the conduct experiment is worth repeating. Robert J. Sawyer has captured a truly compelling thought with Flashforward, and he fully explores what such an event might mean to humanity. Fans will find this to be his best work to date, although the ending seems rushed after a detailed buildup. –Therese Littleton
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Came in time promised and in condition promised. Haven’t read it yet, but it’s on my list!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I didn’t despise it…. but I surely wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.
The leader place a kid in the book (7 year ancient) now I have no problem with kids in my book, if they act like kids. The leader had this kid adage ridicules things that a 7 year ancient would never say.
Also he tried way to hard for a like tale that FAILED miserably. When two characters in the tale touched hands (guy and girl mind you) he really clarify the seconds their hands were touching as tasty …. PUKE!
I give it two stars because he got right to the flash-forwards.
I really hope the TV show is better than this book.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I’ll be brief:
This is the first Robert J. Sawyer book I’ve read. Very disappointing. The prose was pretentious and dull, bloated and repetitive. (The dialogue reads at times like a transcription of dull conversation.) The characters, cardboard. (They’re both inconsistent and unbelievable.) The editing, practically non-existent. (Typos galore, but also changing pronouns, misspelled words.) The plot, unconvincing. (And ultimately unexciting. In the end he tries to play a game similar to Greg Bear’s Blood Composition. It doesn’t work.) The science, uninspiring. (He name-drops scientists, additional science fiction writers, and additional science fiction writers’ thoughts.)
I came to the book really wanting to like it. I left the book feeling like I’d wasted my time.
I don’t reflect I’ll be venturing Sawyer’s way again, sorry to say.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This was the kind of book, that you had to really concentrate on to know what is going on. I establish that i had to go back every now and then to keep up with the character. Excellent reading and a excellent book to take with you on a long flight or sitting in a waiting room.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
A lot attempted but with small results. I kept looking for the footnotes and perhaps some math formulas. It seems many Sci-fi writers are making new genre’s these days. The discipline of the ancient Sci-fi is a thing of the past. But back to the attempts: excellent opinion of whether mankind has or hasn’t free will; a leap into the mythical arena of tachyons (energy moving quicker than light); a fantastic metaphor of the Minkowski time cube and thereby to clarify the scenery of time!; a primer on subatomic particle accelerators and their future obsolescence; a hint at the scenery of time travel (although for less than 2 minutes). Not a tiny helping on Sawyer’s platter.
Sorry to say the leader does not take his own web site advice in writing “to show as a replacement for of tell”. Unmotivated characters spouted large helpings of real-life physicist Frank Tipler’s Omega Point stuffing and I doubt the leader got Tipler’s permission to reproduce. Sawyer could have at least dedicated the book to Tipler or added him to the acknowledgements. My largest problem with the speech was too much mixing of real life physicist’s theorizing with Sawyer’s own fine speculative fiction. Such a technique seems to fling the reader out of the imaginative walls in which the tale is supposed to be taking place. One could argue that it shores up the believability of the tale but the leader should rather rely on the readers “suspension of disbelief.”
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5