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Flash Forward - Robert J. Sawyer Book Review

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Review Summaries
"In Flash Forward, an experiment in the CERN facility goes awry. Humanity is taken several decades into the future for a few minutes, and is then brought back. But, while they were gone, the world continued. Cars crashed, people died, and disaster struck everyone indiscriminately. People are given a whole new way of looking at things, and many can't handle it. What will happen the day that they saw themselves in the future? "
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Plot
Tone of book - very upbeat
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - state secrets
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - scientist
Age: - 40's-50's
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
Earth setting: - near future (later in 21st century) - distant future
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Person? - rotating 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - the book is simply packed with technical jargon
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy - description of breasts
How much dialogue? - significantly more descript than dialog
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