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Robert J. Sawyer
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.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Author
Robert J. Sawyer
Pages
320
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2014-05-06
ISBN
1429914580 9781429914581
Ratings
Google: 4
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"I hate to say this.... because I know I'll catch a lot of flak for it, but.... this is one case where the TV series really is better than the book.<br/><br/>This is not to say that the book is bad. It's sorta average, a quick read with a lot of physics made very easily understandable by the layman, which is a feat in and of itself. (Although, I'll admit that I read some of the more interesting bits of physics to my physics-obsessed boyfriend and was rewarded with a rant of epic proportions about how it was all fuzzed. And honestly, a lot of it was.)<br/><br/>The climax itself was the biggest anti-climax I've ever read. Well, maybe not the biggest, but the book just took every bit of suspense available and just flattened it. <br/><br/>So, in summation, if you're curious where the series came from, go ahead and read it. It's fast. Just ...get it from the library or something."
Amanda Ebbutt
