Flashforward
Imagine for just a moment that everyone on earth is "flashed forward," simultaneously thrust into his or her future 21 years hence. Then, just as suddenly, this insane scientific experiment snaps off, hurtling all the world's inhabitants back into the present. Now, as you're brushing yourself off...
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Imagine for just a moment that everyone on earth is "flashed forward," simultaneously thrust into his or her future 21 years hence. Then, just as suddenly, this insane scientific experiment snaps off, hurtling all the world's inhabitants back into the present. Now, as you're brushing yourself off from this shattering experience, introduce yourself to Robert J. Sawyer's bristling sci-fi novel on just that topic. A mass market revival of a 1999 cult favorite.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780765363831 (0765363836)
Publish date: September 1st 2009
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Pages no: 319
Edition language: English
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 ...
No puedo más con este libro, no me engancha, me aburre, los diálogos me resultan falsos e irrisorios, y la narración bastante extraña. Como no me apetece leer por obligación, lo dejo.
Honestly I wasn't all that impressed. Much like the TV series where I saw the first episode or two and then lost interest, I really didn't connect with any of the caracters and the ending left me a bit cold. It's not a bad story, what happens when people blank out and see a glimpse of their lives ...
The television show might have fizzled out after four or five episodes (limping through a whole diminishing season after nonetheless), but it still made for a better experience than this book.Truly poor writing, chock full of clumsy exposition (a woman has collapsed in front of her 3D computer monit...
“Futurospekcja” to szósta powieść Roberta J. Sawyera wydana w Polsce. Dopiero szósta, po obsypanych nagrodami “Eksperymencie terminalnym” (cudowna powieść!), trylogii “Neandertalska Paralaksa” (rewelacja!) i nieco innym w odbiorze, trochę przekombinowanym, ale jednak równie ciekawym “Starpleksie”. D...