Flashback

Name: Flashback
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Author: Dan Simmons
ISBN: 9781609419745

Author: Dan Simmons

Narrator: Joe Barrett, Richard Davidson, Bryan Kennedy

Unabridged: 21 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

Published: 07/01/2011

Categories: Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective, Private Investigators

Synopsis

A provocative dystopian thriller set in a future that seems scarily possible, Flashback proves why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers.

The United States is near total collapse. 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. 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. This flashback-addict becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation turning away from the future to live in the past.

About Dan Simmons

DAN SIMMONS is a recipient of numerous major international awards, including the Hugo Award, World Fantasy Award, Bram Stoker Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. He is widely considered to be one of the premier multiple-genre fiction writers in the world. His most recent novels include the New York Times bestsellers The Terror and Drood, as well as Black Hills. He lives along the Front Range in Colorado and has never grown tired of the views.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on July 30, 2015

Dear Dan Simmons, We have taken your family hostage. If you want to see them alive again, immediately write a dystopian novel that incorporates the following ideas: 1) The election of Obama in 2008 triggers a wave of socialist entitlement programs that bankrupts the United States. Be sure to repeatedl......more

Goodreads review by Baba on January 28, 2023

Israel obliterated! A Muslim Caliphate spread all over Middle East, Africa, Asia and... Europe! A raging civil war in China! The Caliphate, a feudal Japan, India and Indonesia are the world's main super powers! 85% of Americans are Flashback addicts reliving the past with the wonder drug. What cause......more

Goodreads review by Tyler on December 13, 2013

People dislike this book for pretty much two major reasons, those being the politics he uses to drive the story, and the far too overused these days cries of racism: but same critical people have no problem with when Stephen King or Douglas Preston add in their own politics and Christian bashing to......more

Goodreads review by Tim on November 13, 2011

Two stars for the complex mystery plot. Otherwise, I'm looking for negative numbers. This book makes Heinlein look like a sissy. The hero is the usual super-tough ex-cop who isn't too smart but always figgers it out in da end. Takes lotsa hits, spits out teeth and gets up again. Bruce Willis in Die......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on March 07, 2015

Dan Simmons envisions a dystopian future triggered by the Obama administration. Truthfully, had I known this was going to be an atrocious, righteous, xenophobic right-wing fantasy novel, I would not have read it. My brain hurt from all the prejudicial contortions in logic and historical perspective.......more