Pros: An incredible, thought-provoking hypothesis and realistic science to back it up! Cons: A weak ending!
Like Schrödinger’s Cat, Flashforward is a confounding, challenging, magnificent thought experiment that is, at once, breathtakingly simply and yet staggering in its possible scope and ramifications. Lloyd Simcoe and Theo Procopides (a pair of ...
Pros: Very cool idea, interesting science... Cons: Almost complete lack of interest in characters...
My favorite kind of science fiction books deal in "what ifs." I generally avoid novels about aliens, the distant future, space travel and anything else really far fetched. In the last few months I've discovered Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer who ...
Pros: Great premise, lots of clever extrapolation. Cons: Characterization only fair.
Robert J. Sawyer's Flashforward follows what I've come to think of as his particular formula, taking an intriguing premise and spinning it out in amusing and thoughtful ways. Sawyer is not strong on characterization, and he's not a particularly...
Pros: Different concept of foreshadowing Cons: Unbelievable effort to duplicate flash forward experiment
What would you do if you had seen two minutes of your future twenty-one years from now? That is the basic premise of Flashforward. I bought this book for a plane trip. One of the reviews on the book called Robert J. Sawyer, "Canada's answer to...
Pros: Easy read, engrossing story, thought-provoking Cons: Amateurishly written, excessive use of the word "doubtless"
3.0 out of 5 stars Good story, poor piece of writing, December 29, 2007 In the very near future of 2009, two physicists working on a complicated experiment accidentally thrust the collective consciousness of the entire world ahead twenty-one ...
In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes awry, throwing the consciousness of the entire human race ahead by 20 years. As the impl...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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