One of my favourite books, by Canada's King of Science Fiction. In
this tale, an experiment pushes everyone ahead in time by about 20
years - in consciousness only - and gives them the view from their
own eyes in the future, but with no ability to do anything but ride
along with what is happening in the future.
Everyone in the world is tossed at this futuresight, and one main
character is more specifically affected: he saw nothing. Someone
contacts him with an e-mail after the event, saying that in the
future, while reading a newspaper, there was an article about the
murder of this man.
What would you do if you had twenty years to figure out who was
going to kill you, and why, and could you stop it?
Filled with much more than that - how would people react if they
knew where they'd be twenty years in the future? - the book grabs
you and keeps you interested from start to end. Vintage Sawyer
stuff!