Sawyer, Robert J. Flashforward. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999. ISBN 0-812-58034-6.

Summary: In 2009, as a side effect of an experiment in particle physics undertaken during a neutrino storm, everyone on Earth is given a glimpse, lasting about two minutes, of what he or she will be seeing and doing twenty-one years later. Some react with despair, some with delight, and some with a cold determination to prevent the future that the world has foreseen. The protagonist a member of the team of particle physicists, is at first paralyzed by an exaggerated sense of his responsibility for the misery indirectly caused by his work, and then by his belief in predestination and the immutability of the future; when events disprove this belief, he is again unprepared for the consequences in his personal life.

There are many subplots, some worked out in considerable detail, but even so the author's determination to expound science and philosophy overwhelms the somewhat weakly drawn characters.