Flash Forward by Robert Sawyer

I was unexpectedly downtown and decided to try Wagamama for dinner. Not wanting to eat alone, I popped into Borders and picked this book up for company. I still have not read the third book in Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, but Borders didn't have it.

Flash Forward was as good as Sawyer's other books. It was a quick read with interesting plot, a little romance, and compelling characters. The book is about a phenomenon that a group of scientists cause accidentally. The phenomenon brings everyone in the world forward twenty years and gives them a short view of their lives then returns them to the present. The majority of the book focuses on how each of the main character copes with knowing where they think they'll be in twenty years.

Again, Sawyer has written a fun book, sci-fi only incidentally. It was less social commentary and more commentary on controlling our own destinies. Either way, enjoyable.