What would you do if you got a glimpse of your own personal future and it looked bleak? Would you try to change things or accept that the future is unchangeable and make the best of it? In Flash Forward, now an ABC series on Thursday evening which is loosely based on the 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer, you will get a chance to see what some have done when faced with that question.
Give the book a try; it is a little more technical than the loosely based series but an interesting novel that makes you think, “What if....?”
--Lois M.
Showing posts with label science fiction. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
What Might Have Been...
Fragment by Warren Fahy is a story about what might have been.
The story opens on a ship called the Trident that happens to be the backdrop for a show called SeaLife. SeaLife chronicles the adventures of a team of scientists as they explore the uncharted reaches of the south Pacific. Unfortunately, the show has lousy ratings, no drama and is basically wrapping up. The Trident is heading home when they get a distress signal coming from Henders Island. They decide to answer the call and from here on out in the story their lives, shortened though they will be, take a turn for the worse.
Henders Island is what the rest of the Earth might have been like if it hadn’t broken up into the continents we know today. Strange and violent species have evolved in a hypercompetitive environment where everything eats everything else. Humans are no match for any of the animals, as some of the Trident’s crew find out the hard way. After the inauspicious and bloody landing of some of the show’s scientist is broadcast on television, the military sends a fleet to the island with their own handpicked experts. Their plan to destroy Henders Island is complicated by the discovery of a benign and intelligent species and the race to save it from destruction.
Fragment is a great read in the same vein as Jurassic Park or Relic. I would highly recommend it.
--Mike N.
The story opens on a ship called the Trident that happens to be the backdrop for a show called SeaLife. SeaLife chronicles the adventures of a team of scientists as they explore the uncharted reaches of the south Pacific. Unfortunately, the show has lousy ratings, no drama and is basically wrapping up. The Trident is heading home when they get a distress signal coming from Henders Island. They decide to answer the call and from here on out in the story their lives, shortened though they will be, take a turn for the worse.
Henders Island is what the rest of the Earth might have been like if it hadn’t broken up into the continents we know today. Strange and violent species have evolved in a hypercompetitive environment where everything eats everything else. Humans are no match for any of the animals, as some of the Trident’s crew find out the hard way. After the inauspicious and bloody landing of some of the show’s scientist is broadcast on television, the military sends a fleet to the island with their own handpicked experts. Their plan to destroy Henders Island is complicated by the discovery of a benign and intelligent species and the race to save it from destruction.
Fragment is a great read in the same vein as Jurassic Park or Relic. I would highly recommend it.
--Mike N.
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