Flashback, (Paperback)

from AshRyan

Set twenty years from now, in Flashback Simmons envisions an America rapidly disintegrating. The economy has collapsed and hyperinflation set in after the nation has been bankrupted by entitlement programs like Obamacare. "Green" energy policy has failed and our industrial infrastructure lies in ...

from TeaTimeCoder

I'm not American so I don't really understand why people are upset about a dystopian story because of politics. It's like being upset about P K Dicks dystopian visions because of drugs. If you think this particular future is implausible I recommend suspension of disbelief - with that the book is ...

from c.archer

As always, Dan Simmons writes a mean story. Whether or not you buy into the political direction of it, you can still enjoy the excitement and imagination in it's pages. The one thing he doesn't do is edit out details. There are plenty of those, and for readers who want a quick and simple read, th...

from dgbryant

I usually don't go for this kind of post-apocalyptic/dystopian stuff, but for Dan Simmons I took a chance. As usual it paid off. Flashback was slow coming out of the blocks, but by the time I got fifty pages in I was fully absorbed in the story. I note that reviews of this book tend to fall predi...

from adpaton

Flashback is a thoroughly enjoyable romp through a fairly outrageous but still believable and wildly readable What If set in a future America which has been invaded by Mexico, culturally dominated by Japan and morally and spiritually ruled by Islam - the Islamic Global Caliphate. The US is bankru...