Flashforward, Robert J. Sawyer
Flashforward, Robert J. Sawyer
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Flashforward

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/23/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has written short fiction published in numerous magazines and anthologies and has published eighteen novels. He has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including the 1995 Nebula Award, the 2003 Hugo Award, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He also won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for mystery fiction. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Christine on 2010-03-04 13:09:50

Sad to say, the TV show based on this handles the concept in a much more interesting way.

Goodreads review by Apatt

“There were, of course, cries of outrage in the press—editorials about scientists messing with things humans were not meant to know about.” Ah! Where would we be if scientists don’t mess about, but who is to say what are the things humans were not meant to know? Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein implies th......more

Goodreads review by TK421

Two minutes and seventeen seconds. A small amount of time for most of us, but within the confines of Robert Sawyer's fantastic science fiction novel FLASHFORWARD, 2:17 becomes more than a number; it becomes the insight to what the future holds. You see, 2:17 is the amount of time humnaity checked-ou......more

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