Flashback
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Average rating2.7
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Ratings3
Average rating2.7
The United States is in ruin, with 87% of the country's population addicted to flashback, a drug which allows the user to re-experience moments of the past. Former detective Nick Bottom is also an addict; he began using after his wife died in a car accident, and lost his job and his relationship with his son as result. But when the son of a top government advisor is murdered, Nick is pulled from his pit of despair to investigate.
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There appear to be two authors named Dan Simmons. One, who wrote The Terror, one of the better works of fiction I've read in recent memory and the other who wrote this piece of tripe, a pastiche of far right-wing paranoia - America destroyed by “entitlements,” invaded by Mexicans, a “global caliphate” ascendant, Israel nuked by Iran (of said caliphate), global climate change a myth, etc. The only thing missing was the main characters extolling the virtue of investing in gold.
It could've worked, though, if only the author had stitched those hare-brained ideas together with solid characters, good dialogue, and believable plotting.
