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Robert J. Sawyer's 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. Winner of the Aurora Award and the basis for the hit ABC television series
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This book has two things going for it. A great premise and CERn (the protagonist was on D0 + 1 star).
Unfortunately the writing is poor. Far too much time is spent exploring the philosophy and cod physics of the flash forward and not enough exploring the characters and the impact on their lives. As for the ending. Bleachh.
Opinião: Se pudesses ter um vislumbre do teu futuro, estarias pronto para essa experiência? Quais seriam as repercussões que esse vislumbre teria no teu presente? É o futuro tão imutável como o passado? Estas são algumas das questões com que os personagens deste livro se debatem após o Flashforward. Com o doseamento certo de acção, introspeção, explicações científicas e algum romance, Flashforward foi um livro que me manteve constantemente interessada. O enredo começa com o acidente no CERN e todas as suas consequências imediatas e vai desenvolvendo, de uma forma clara e sem atropelos para os dramas pessoais de cada um dos personagens. Como estes são quase todos cientistas do CERN, permite a introdução natural das atuais teorias da física quântica que se debruçam sobre o funcionamento do universo e das viagens no tempo. Assim, qualquer leitor leigo sobre o tema pode aprender o que é o “Gato de Schrödinger”, o “Cubo de Minkowski”, o “Bosão de Higgs” entre outras teorias. Interessante foi encontrar que o próprio CERN tem uma página dedicada ao livro onde indica a ciência por detrás do livro e alguma informação sobre o trabalho que está a ser desenvolvido no complexo. Aconselho o vídeo que está nessa página.
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This author writes the kind of books I want to read, like Calculating God, but without any literary quality. It feels like a stereotypical scientist, one who seats in a lab all day and has no knowledge of human interactions, decided to learn what that is like from a 50 page book he picked up in a Walmart, and he kind of understood.
The result is a very “square” prose, with lots of telling/not showing. Everything feels very artificial. “... and she lost her child. It felt bad, and she cried, because that's what humans do when they are sad.”
The premise of the book is that an amazingly interesting phenomenon hapended, where the humanity's mind collectively jumped 20 or so years ahead in the future, and then went back after a few minutes.
34% into the book and NOTHING interesting to show for. He tries to describes the humane aspect of the event, how it affected peoples lives. I wanted a mystery and/or a thriller, maybe some time travel fantasy mixed in. There is none. Just a plain day-by-day description of the lives of some of the people affected by the event. Who to blame, a guy who finds out he is going to be murdered, and tries to prevent it, people getting divorced, life insurances bankrupting, etc.
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