Flashforward

Not much like the TV-show based on this book, but that in my opinion did not matter. I really liked the TV-show and I really liked this book, even though they use the same premise and develop it very differently.

The book focuses on the research team at CERN who believe they inadvertently caused the whole of humanity to get a vision of 20 years hence. During this vision everybody lost consciousness causing among other things plane and car crashes and a huge loss of life.

Much of the book focuses on the science and everyone trying to figure out what happened and then in good scientific fashion trying to recreate the experiment.

But we also have time to look at some of the characters' reactions and thoughts as to what they saw in their visions. Is it worth it to put time into a relationship you know won't last? Why did some people not see anything? Is the future fixed?

I found the story to be really intriguing and it had me hooked from start to finish (read it in one sitting).