Flash Forward

Author: Robert J. Sawyer|See more titles by Robert J. Sawyer

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Format:Hardcover

Dimensions:320 Pages, 5.5 x 8.25 in

Published:June 8, 1999

Publisher:Tor Books

Canadian Author

The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10:0312867123
ISBN - 13:9780312867126

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Lloyd Simcoe and Theo Procopides work at the CERN research facility in Switzerland; their fast-forward experiment hurtles people into the future and leaves thousands left unconscious or killed. But it also leaves many people with questions about what happened in between the experiment and the fast-forwarding of two decades. The scientists must deal with their guilt and the ramifications of their experiment; they also have to deal with an insatiable public who want to know what becomes of their lives so they can fix their future mistakes. In the field of science fiction writing, award winning author Robert J. Sawyer is a titan. Flashforward is a thrilling look into what happens when the future of humanity is thrown ahead by 20 years because of an experiment gone awry.

From the Publisher

Robert J. Sawyers award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times Book Review called Frameshift filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incidents. His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flashforward and see their successes ... or learn how to avoid their failures.

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Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times called Factoring Humanity "filled to bursting with ideas, characters, and incidents," while The Gainesville Sun said, "Sawyer is a brilliant stylist who depicts daily life events with a shattered worldview."

Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery at the CERN research facility in Switzerland. The research team of Lloyd Simcoe and Theo Procopides is using the particle accelerator at CERN in pursuit of the elusive Higgs Boson, a theoretical subatomic particle. But their experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years.

While humanity must deal immediately with the destructive aftermath of the experiment -- thousands were injured and killed as every single person's body was left unconscious in the here-and-now -- the greater implications take longer to surface. People who had no vision of the future seek to learn how they will died, while others seek out future lovers.

Lloyd must deal with the guilt of accidentally causing the death of his fiancée's child, while Theo gets caught up in the search for his own murderer. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of the future, a chance to flashforward to see their successes . . . or learn how to avoid their failures.

About the Author

Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has sold fifteen science fiction novels to major New York publishers, and won twenty-one national and international writing awards. Rob is the only author in history to win the top science fiction awards in the United States (the Nebula), Japan (the Seium), France (Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire) and Spain (Premio UPC de Ciencia Ficcion). In addition, he's won five Aurora Awards (Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Award).

His The Terminal Experiment won the Nebula Award (the "Academy Award" of the science fiction field) for Best Novel of the Year, and he's had four consecutive best-novel nominations for the Hugo Award, science fiction's international people's choice award.

Robert J. Sawyer lives in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, with his wife, Carolyn Clink.