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Summary: bad science, boring characters
Review: Sawyer uses all the trappings of the hard SF genre without hewing to the ground rule: get your science right! The science in general is ludicrous, but it's particularly inexcusable when the physicists express disappointment that they did not discover the Higgs boson in the first few minutes of running a new accelerator. Virtually all the description of the world of scienctific research rings false, especially the characters' preoccupation with the Nobel prize. All of this wouldn't be so bad if the characters weren't cardboard cutouts. Why read a didactic novel that hasn't been carefully thought out?
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Summary: Ho Hum
Review: There sure was fiction. But where was the science? I found I was very impatient with the story because it was all uninteresting aftermath, uninteresting chracters, and uninterestingly presented. You'll find yourself skimmming through this book. Skip it.
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Summary: Best new time-oriented novel since Baxter's Timeships
Review: It's hard to come up with a new riff on time travel I guess because so few writers manage it. Last one I enjoyed was Stephen Baxter's The Time Ships, but this one although completely different is equally good. And seeing as how it is set at CERN, in my part of the world, I was doubly pleased but I suspect you will enjoy it no matter where you live.
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Summary: Makes you think! Ideas on every page.
Review: There doesn't seem to be a British/Oz/NZ edition yet, so I shelled out for the American one -- and I was not disappointed. Storyline is one I have never before seen. I liked it. Like most people, I had fantasized about knowing the future (especially when I visit the casino!), but Sawyer made me think of what a double edged sword that would be. Fine writing, fine science, fine characers .... what more could you want? Five stars.
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Summary: Who says there are no new idea lest? Great premise!
Review: SCI-FI WEEKLY said the idea behind this book was unbelievably cool, and they were right! In a very real sense, the book deals with all of humanity, and so hs six bllion characters. The high-energy physics environment seemed spot-on to me. My first Sawyer novel --- but it won't be my last. Recommended.
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Summary: Great idea...great execution.
Review: Ever since reading Sawyer's The Terminal Experiment I've been following his career with joy. His latest is my favorite since The Terminal Experiment for all the reasons I love Robert J. Sawyer novels: great characters, great science, sense-of-wonder, and discussion of moral/ethical issues. If you haven't spent time with this author FastForward is an excellent way to start. I highly recommend this novel and his others, too.
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Summary: Wow! What a great riff on time travel!
Review: The concept of seeing two minutes of your own future is just mind-blowing! There are so many great ideas here -- Sawyer could have written several separate books rather than just one. The characters in this book are complex and very human. The science did not overwhelm or confuse me. Sawyer makes everything come together at the end. I will be looking for this book on next year's Hugo ballot!
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Summary: Characters always come alive for Robert Sawyer.
Review: This book is not just about the human consciousness leaping 21 years into the future. It's about the people to whom this happened. How do people who have been given a taste of their own future react to that knowledge? Humanity just had the "Fruit of Knowledge" thrust down its throat. Can we be the same after we gain that knowledge? Did that knowledge come at too high a price? Does freewill exist or is it just an illusion humanity concocted? Is the future immutable or can we make our own future? Sawyer deals with not only complex ideas, like these, but also complex emotions. He breathes life into his characters, then lets them take flight. Once I picked this book up, I could not put it down.
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Summary: Great hook!
Review: One thing about Sawyer, he picks a great concept then runs with it. You won't be disapointed in any of his works.
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Summary: Very good book; very good read.
Review: I don't normally buy hardcovers, but I liked Sawyer's FACTORING HUMANITY so much that I got this one, too. It's very different -- less intimate than FH, but just as mindblowing. I recommend it.
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