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FlashForward [Paperback]

Robert J. Sawyer (Author)
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Publication Date: 9 Oct 2009

Suddenly everyone in the world loses consciousness for two minutes. Planes fall from the sky, there are millions of car crashes, millions die. And when everyone comes round they have had a glimpse of their life in the future.

When it awakes the world must live with the knowledge of what is to come.

Some saw themselves in new relationships, some saw exciting new technologies, some saw the stuff of nightmares. Some, young and old alike, saw nothing at all . . .

A desperate search to find out what has happened begins. Does the mosaic of visions offer a clue?

What did you see?

Now the basis for the Channel 5 hit series FLASHFORWARD

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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; paperback / softback edition (9 Oct 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0575091010
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575091016
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 1.9 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (95 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 29,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This is the novel that inspired the TV series. The book's cast indulges in more leisurely discussion of theories about free will, multiple universes and the like. It works rather well. There are some intriguing predictions for the year 2030, by the way: hover cars and an African-American president in the White House. (THE DAILY MAIL )

Although it was turned for TV into a race-against-time thriller, the novel is an intellectual puzzle, drawing on theoretical physics to raise questions about time and space and the existence of free will, and proves once again that good science fiction does not need visual effects to thrill. (Lisa Tuttle THE TIMES )

The novel, now published for the first time in this country, is... decent sci-fi. (THE EVENING STANDARD )

Sawyer focuses on the efforts of a small group of people to cope with their new found knowledge, showing what's going on for the rest of the world via news headlines. This gives the reader the opportunity to really get inside people's heads and experience the phenomenon at first hand... a thoughtful and exploratory piece that examines the nature of destiny and free will." (GRAEME'S FANTASY BOOK REVIEW )

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An acclaimed high concept SF novel, the basis for a new SF series, destined to be the new LOST.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A book of two halves 3 May 2010
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Robert Sawyer always finds great stories to write about. His ideas always draw me in and I think I'm in for a fantastic tale. Then I reach the end and I feel like it could have been more.

Flashforward had a great pull - See your own life 20 years into the future for 2 minutes and try to work out how to get there.

It was a brilliant start and a real page turner. I loved reading about everyone's flashforward, I was rivited by all the connotations that flashforward threw up. Even the loss and devestation caused by the flashforward made for interesting reading...The first half is about the here and now. It's great.

When we reach the second half, it's all about edging towards the 20 year future that had been predicted. Getting there takes a lot of technical info that frankly I could have done without. The why's and how's don't really interest me. Also the two leads at this stage become a bit whiney. Lloyd simcoe wants to be with his girl, then he's got doubts, then he's sure again, then he has doubts again....and Theo is so wrapped up in himself that he gets tedious really fast. It's all me, me, me with Theo. THEN we get to the future and it's all wraped up in a paragrah or 3. It was a bit of a let down.

The ending left me with a bit of a 'whaaat??' moment and I imagine for the hard-core sci-fi fans it was the best bit, but I just wasn't feeling it. The conclusion was over in a flash.

.....And it's nothing like the tv show...... just sayin'
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Philosophical and thought provoking 13 Jun 2010
By Barbara Bellamy
Format:Paperback
I bought the book after watching the American TV series, which was intriguing and complex, dealing with the aftermath of a global experiment which enabled everyone to have a glimpse of their future.

The novel, at first, disappointed: characters are changed, plot lines re-allocated and the focus shifted in the tv version to make it more dramatic. Unlike the series, which is from a security service angle, the novel shows the events from the perspective of one of the scientists, who struggles to come to terms with the implication of his vision - which shows him in a very different future than the one he's planning for himself and his fiancee.

Robert J Sawyer spends the first quarter of the novel in a mind boggling explanation of the theoretical physics underpinning the event - not for the faint-hearted. Wisely, the tv version only nods at this. Thereafter, he concentrates on the impact such a revelation has on the psyche: if we knew what the future held would we fight it, if we didn't like what we saw, or accept our fate as inevitable?
The novel wrestles with concepts of self determination, free will, fate and time as a dimension.

Don't buy the book if, like me, you want to find out how the tv series is going to end. Do buy it if you want to exercise your grey cells on some of the biggest questions we can ask about life's purpose.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Characters always come alive for Robert Sawyer. 16 July 1999
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Format:Hardcover
This book is not just about the human consciousness leaping 21 years into the future. It's about the people to whom this happened. How do people who have been given a taste of their own future react to that knowledge? Humanity just had the "Fruit of Knowledge" thrust down its throat. Can we be the same after we gain that knowledge? Did that knowledge come at too high a price? Does freewill exist or is it just an illusion humanity concocted? Is the future immutable or can we make our own future? Sawyer deals with not only complex ideas, like these, but also complex emotions. He breathes life into his characters, then lets them take flight. Once I picked this book up, I could not put it down.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The TV show this is not...
I was drawn to this book as I'd been a keen viewer of the TV show of the same name whose run was cut short before conclusion. Read more
Published 21 days ago by GK
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
Enjoyed the TV series (although it's now been cancelled as I understand). Thought the book would be as enjoyable but sadly very incorrect assumption made. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Cath
4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy the TV Series that ended prematurely?...
If you were intrigued by the US series by the same title which screened over here, but was disappointed when it was cancelled without notice or conclusion, then do as I have and... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Neil
3.0 out of 5 stars Fizzled out
This book started promisingly and raised some interesting points but did not have quite the ending I was hoping for.
Published 2 months ago by Mrs M Sinclair
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly enjoyed this.
The TV adaptation of Flash Forward became something of a phenomenon a few years ago. Clever marketing campaigns hyped it up beyond belief (at least in the UK), and all my friends... Read more
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To those of you who have discovered Robert J. Sawyer (and with the awards he has won you must be many) then there is no need to write words of praise. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mike Travis
2.0 out of 5 stars nothing like the tv
apart from the odd name and the time shift, this is not much like the tv series
so it won't help if you're wondering what might have happened if the second season hadn't been... Read more
Published 3 months ago by patacake
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
This story is a must watch and a must read! GET IT! You won't be disappointed, thoroughly enjoyable and very entertaining!
Published 4 months ago by andrew_dawson
4.0 out of 5 stars A good read
If you want to read this because of the tv series be prepared for it to be completely different. I personally prefer the book, it makes far more sense.
Published 4 months ago by Clare
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Bit confusing like the tv series but needs to be a continue/ follow up book as it ends strangely and I want to know what happens
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