by Ms Manu

Created on: October 24, 2009

After seeing a couple of episodes of Flashforward on 'ABC', I decided I had to read the book, owe it to my impatience that I could not wait weeks for the story to unfold or my inherent preference of books to TV series. Whatever it might have been, I managed to get my hands on this book. I had planned to read this book every day, a couple of pages over my evening tea. I picked up the first chapter in the evening with my tea, made dinner and had it, dozed off, woke up had breakfast and then put the book down. This book is irresistible, I just could not stop reading this the last page was turned.

This book is not voluminous and is a medium read. The theme of the story is interesting and is very relevant, ode to the big bang experiment and man's quest to understand the astronomical vastness and the sub atomic miniscule. The language is very graspable, the embedded physics concepts and jargon provide the necessary ambiance while not being overly technical, and so the reader doesn't have to pick up the dictionary or google for synonyms and explanations. All the characters are very tangible with no histrionics, making this story that much more plausible, be it the scientist whose experiment killed his fiancs child lest caused impossible suffering around the world, or another scientist who is trying to avoid his murder in twenty years , every human emotion is put forth in its natural simplicity. The pace of the book is crisp, its neither a mad dash to the end leaving the reader perplexed about how they got there nor a bore drag where the reader is craving for it to end, though the ending seems to be a bit of a roller-coaster leaving the reader bewildered and taking them away from the book, guess stories on a hypothesis are that much hard to end.

The author, Robert J Sawyer winner many international awards, has done a commendable job, his story telling is marvelous. He is an acclaimed writer in the science fiction genre. Born in Canada he is one of the fast growing new age writers. One fine sample of his work is Flashforward. Everything about this book is good, interesting storyline, great story telling, the science definitely a must read for all science enthusiasts and would definitely make a good read too otherwise.

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