Flashback
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.70 (870 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609417259 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 231 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a provocative, frightening book Flashback is a fascinating read and many, no doubt, will be outraged at what it suggests. . It's a book that will stay with you days after you finish it, chewing over its implications and precedents; but it's also a thrilling detective novel with a grand compelling mystery at its centre and more heart than you might think' SFX. 'This is Simmons doing detective noir with an SF sheen Simmons has, as ever, created a compelling, believable cast of characters, but it's not really Nick Bottom's travails that make this such a startling read. 'nothing will prepare you for Flashback, a book as relentlessly compelling and unsettling as
After ex-detective Nick Bottom s wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her. This flashback addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation that is turning away from the future to live in the past.". But 87 percent of the population doesn t care: they re addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to reexperience the best moments of their lives. The United States is near total collapse. Nick may be a lost soul, but he s still a good cop; so he is hired to investigate the murder of the son of a top governmental advisor. He has lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result
He lives in Colorado. Dan Simmons is the award-winning author of several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos and The Terror.
So, What Exactly IS Flashback? Doug Park {3.5 stars}FLASHBACK presents a fascinating dystopian vision of the world-in-general and America-in-particular 20-odd years from now. The U.S. has split into several ineffectual pieces; there is constant war in China; Israel has been nuked into near-oblivion by the rising "Global Caliphate"; Japan has a (to-be-revealed) agenda of its own, and so forth. Atop all of this, a huge portion of the world's population is passively addicted to "flashback," an ingredients-unidentified substance that allows people to relive their pasts with absolute clarity.FLASHBACK is full of intere. Jay Azorlosa said Dan Simmons is one of my favorite sci fi authors. Dan Simmons is one of my favorite sci fi authors. The Hyperion Cantos is brilliant. Illium and Olympus are outstanding. His forays in other genres are great reads too. The first Simmons work I read was "Flashback," the 199Dan Simmons is one of my favorite sci fi authors Dan Simmons is one of my favorite sci fi authors. The Hyperion Cantos is brilliant. Illium and Olympus are outstanding. His forays in other genres are great reads too. The first Simmons work I read was "Flashback," the 1993 novelette. One my top ten favorites in sci fi short fiction. However, "Flashback" the full length novel was disappointing. But this review is not about the novel, but about the drug flashback. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the George R, R, Martin's story "for a single yesterday," published in 1975, had a drug, chronine, that is exactly the same . novelette. One my top ten favorites in sci fi short fiction. However, "Flashback" the full length novel was disappointing. But this review is not about the novel, but about the drug flashback. I was wondering if anyone else noticed the George R, R, Martin's story "for a single yesterday," published in 1975, had a drug, chronine, that is exactly the same . Amazon Customer said They Doth Protest too Much. For people who are turned off by politics of any sort I could understand some of the reviews but reading them in depth I get the impression that they "doth protest too much" in that had he written some liberal apocalyptic plot like the move Vendetta I'm sure many would have been singing it's praises instead. The point of view he wrote from is probably a lot more possible as future dsytopia than any of the boiler plate shiboleths that haunt the left.Long and short if I have been waiting for a Simmons book I could really get into since he expanded Carrion Comfort from a short