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The basis for the hit ABC TV series and the Aurora Award-winning novel that started it all!FLASHFORWARDTwo minutes and seventeen seconds that changed the worldSuddenly, without warning, all seven billion people on Earth black out for more than two minutes. Millions die as planes fall from the sky, people tumble down staircases, and cars plow into each other.But that's the least of the survivors' challenges. During the blackout, everyone experienced a glimpse of what his or her future holds―and the interlocking mosaic of these visions threatens to unravel the present.

Robert J. Sawyer's award-winning science fiction has garnered both popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times Book Review called Frameshift "filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incidents". His novels are fixtures on the Hugo and Nebula ballots. Sawyer now brings us Flashforward, the story of a world-shattering discovery. In pursuit of an elusive nuclear particle, an experiment goes incredibly awry, and, for a few moments, the consciousness of the entire human race is thrown ahead by about twenty years. As the implications truly hit home, the pressure to repeat the experiment builds. Everyone wants a glimpse of their future, a chance to flashforward and see their successes ... or learn how to avoid their failures.

Take six twentysomething Chicago friends, add cocktails and hormones, shake and you've got Happy Endings, the hilarious comedy that asks: "When a couple splits, who gets to keep the friends?" Dave (Zachary Knighton, TV's Flashforward) finds fulfillment manning a food truck after losing his hot fianc, Alex (Elisha Cuthbert, TVs 24), at the altar. Alex's type-A sister, Jane (Eliza Coupe, TV's Future Man), is almost happily married to horn-dog Brad (Damon Wayans Jr., TV's New Girl). Da

With such compelling and provocative novels as Red Planet Blues, FlashForward and The WWW Trilogy, Robert J. Sawyer has proven himself to be “a writer of boundless confidence and bold scientific extrapolation” (New York Times). Now, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author explores the thin line between good and evil that every human being is capable of crossing...Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories of six months of his life from twenty years previously—a dark time during which he himself committed heinous acts.Jim is reunited with Kayla Huron, his forgotten girlfriend from his lost period and now a quantum physicist who has made a stunning discovery about the nature of human consciousness. As a rising tide of violence and hate sweeps across the globe, the psychologist and the physicist combine forces in a race against time to see if they can do the impossible—change human nature—before the entire world descends into darkness. 

Phthor is the sequel to Chthon, less intricately structured and less complicated in plot, but still quite dark and ugly in theme and detail. Rather than flashbacks and flashforwards, it has a Y outline, with the stem the initial story and the ends alternate futures, neither of which is acceptable to Aton’s son Arlo. Arlo has his own encounter with a Minionette, and naturally destruction is upon him and all with whom he associates. Write/editor Charles Platt was so impressed with the chthonic setting that he wrote two additional sequels, Plasm and Soma, which are even darker and grimmer.

Take six twentysomething Chicago friends, add cocktails and hormones, shake and you've got Happy Endings, the hilarious comedy that asks: "When a couple splits, who gets to keep the friends?" Dave (Zachary Knighton, TV's Flashforward) finds fulfillment manning a food truck after losing his hot fianc, Alex (Elisha Cuthbert, TVs 24), at the altar. Alex's type-A sister, Jane (Eliza Coupe, TV's Future Man), is almost happily married to horn-dog Brad (Damon Wayans Jr., TV's New Girl). Dave's roomma

Anthology of original stories, speculating about future America. Foreword: Coming Attractions (essay) by Edward Bryant; Introduction: Flashforward to 2076 (essay) by Peter S. Alterman; "A Red, White and Blue Fourth of July" by Karl Hansen; "Escape Is No Accident" by Carol Emshwiller; "Feminine Demystification" (poem) by Jo Ann Harper; "The Dust of Evening" by Robert Crais; "The Death of Sappho" by Marge Piercy; "Like Snow-Humped Fields Afraid of Rain" (poem) by William Jon Watkins; "And I for an Eye" by James Stevens; "Emissary from Hamelin" by Harlan Ellison; "Corruption of Metals" (poem) by Sonya Dorman; "Aztecs" by Vonda N. McIntyre; "X-2076" (poem) by Peter Dillingham; " The Biological Revolution" by Robert E. Vardeman and Jeff Slaten; " One Road to Damascus" by James Sallis and David Lunde; " Welcome to the Tricentennial" by Patrick Henry Prentice.