Flashforward

319 pages

English language

Published Jan. 3, 2000 by Tor Book.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-8034-1
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OCLC Number:
57697115

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3 stars (3 reviews)

Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times Book Review called Frameshift "filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incidents". His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flashforward and see their successes ... or learn how to avoid their failures. Winner of the Aurora Award and the basis for the hit ABC television series

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3 stars

I've always liked this author and Flashforward was the first of his novels I ever read, in an afternoon with Ken Grimwood's Replay, of all things. I enjoyed the first 90% of the title and the mystery of the killer was an intrigue. the technology was also fascinating, of course; this was written before Cern's LHC ever did anything, as far as I am aware. I could never really get on with the whole transcendence idea, though, so found the ending a little lacking for my personal taste.

Blackstone Audiobooks have a good version of this, I read it as an OCR at the time and have only heard narrated portions.

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Subjects

  • Science fiction
  • Time travel
  • Bosons de Higgs
  • Voyages dans le temps
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Science-fiction
  • Fiction