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Hello everyone. As commented in a previous post, I leave the ranks of Coffee Author to become part of the team of collaborators, reviewers of Horror Hispanic. As a bonus I will publish these reviews in my blog and Shvoong . Well, having said that, here is my first review as a collaborator. A hug to everyone and until next post.

FlashForward

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Editorial: The Factory of Ideas

320 pages

ISBN: 9788498005578

1 st edition in Castilian: 2009, Madrid

The research team Simcoe and Theo Procopides Lloyd is using the particle accelerator at CERN laboratory in Switzerland on a secret project. But his experiment goes terribly wrong and, for a couple of minutes, the conscience of the entire human race is thrown twenty years to the future. While mankind must heal immediate catastrophic effects of the experiment, the most serious implications take a while to appear. Those who did not receive visions of the future try to discover how to die. Others look to their future and lovers. Lloyd must overcome the guilt for accidentally caused the death of his fiancee's daughter, while Theo is caught in the investigation of his own murder. As the real consequences of what happened start to become clear, the pressure to repeat the experiment is increasing steadily. Everyone wants a glimpse of the future, a chance to jump and witness your success ... or to learn to avoid their mistakes. In this novel, full of wit Sawyer usual, their descriptions and discussions of high school, well constructed characters and a brilliant sense of rhythm, the author shows he is at his best.

First of all, note that Robert J. Sawyer has published more than twenty novels with major American publishers and has won over twenty national and international awards for his work, including the Hugo and Nebula for best novel of the year. Furthermore, gender is the author most studied in American universities today. On this premise, no doubt, as you can guess, we are faced with an author who knows what he's talking and dominates the narrative techniques and style quite quickly. Maybe some elements are lost under the influence of translation, but it is true that the author manages to keep the focus for much of the reading, making it an enjoyable literary adventure.

the very beginning of the novel raises a number of issues that fire the imagination of the reader and make him think about the possibilities that has a history like this to happen in our immediate reality. The novel is certain physics concepts that might dislodge a little to those who have no idea of \u200b\u200bthis science and yet, there comes a time relegated to the background for the benefit of the plot. Still, the author has tried to make the reader feel comfortable with certain important theories in physics and experiments carried out on site, getting it does not sound much like Chinese. Obviously some of complex approaches are reflected in Flashforward and other theories that border adjacent to the Physics.

In principle, the weight of history will have three characters, all related to the experiment that gives rise to the event: Theo Procopides, Lloyd Simcoe and Michiko, the latter promised. The cohesion of these three characters, unfortunately, is becoming weaker as the story progresses and the burden will fall on Theo and his obsession about his own future, which is supposed to be killed. This was saved, as pointed out earlier, the fact that it is a dynamic story and quick read, with attractive details about a possible future hypothetical. The imagery so strongly displayed by the author bears witness to his experience in this genre and really makes the environment does not appear to surprise the reader's eyes. It misses more information about the rest of the world, their views and, ultimately, seems to lack something of chicha in this regard, even allowing for a temporary jump too great between the two main parts of the book, giving the feeling of emptiness and frustration. However, aspects are forgivable, as a whole, even this temporary difference of twenty years, has its charms and provides a stronger contrast between visions and the future itself.

is not one of the best novels I've read and I can not say in the matter of the series that inspired its pages but has a very attractive idea is growing almost as large single features is a good read. Get the reader into a new dimension and makes you reflect on certain aspects and unusual concepts.