Flashback
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (650 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611134773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 201 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After ex-detective Nick Bottom's wife died in a car accident, he went under the flash to be with her; he's lost his job, his teenage son, and his livelihood as a result.Nick may be a lost soul but he's still a good cop, so he is hired to investigate the murder of a top governmental advisor's son. But 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to flashback, a drug that allows its users to re-experience the best moments of their lives. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entir
Dan Simmons is the award-winning author of several novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Olympos and The Terror. . He lives in Colorado
So, What Exactly IS Flashback? {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 interesting turns and complication. Dan Simmons is one of my favorite sci fi authors Jay Azorlosa 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 as Simmon's flashback. For a. 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 story into a full novel. Th
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 a provocative, frightening book Flashback is a fascinating read and many, no doubt, will be outraged at what it suggests. . His trajectory is tightly plotted and there's an emotional undertow to his actions that's easy to empathise with, sure, but it's the world Simmons has made that's the thing here, a world that sits right next to ours and might actually be our world if we're not too careful - and it's not too late. '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