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Flashforward
Author: Robert J. Sawyer
A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end of those moments, when the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.
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ISBN-13: 9780812580341
ISBN-10: 0812580346
Publication Date: 4/15/2000
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Incredibly inventive and complete - Sawyer thought of every aspect one would encounter if one was to glimpse two minutes, twenty-one years into the future. He considers personal, economic, and global consequences for this one event. I haven't been so completely enthralled with a book like this in years.

What if you saw yourself twenty-one years from now, but you were married to someone else? What if you saw yourself talking to your child - one whom you haven't had yet?

This book perfectly combines hard science and philosophical brainstorming in an engaging story that can be read over one weekend.
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This was an incredible ride! Nice amount of hard sf facts/theory thrown about in a story with interesting characters. It is a fast read and at only 300+ pages, it makes for a good weekend read. Is the future imutable? What would you do if you could see a glimpse of your future? After reading this book, my answer to that question has changed. Highly recommended ... Can't wait to read some of Sawyer's other work.
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This was a great book! Just enough "hard" sci-fi and just enough "drama" and just enough "plot". Basically the story revolves around a group of scientists who run an experiment, and something very weird happens. Every single person on earth is knocked out for 2 minutes. During that time, some people see 1 minute and 45 seconds of their life 21 years in the future. Some see nothing. Some don't survive the 2 minutes they are unconscious! What would you do if you had to solve your own murder? Could you change it? Would you marry that same person? What if you want to commit suicide? And can the scientists take another look into the future yet again? WORTH THE READ!

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Very interesting book. People get a short glimpse of the future. Gives you a lot to think about.


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