Enter to win "Triggers"
Welcome to the July edition of the Buy Canadian First Book Club! Don't forget to "Like" the Buy Canadian First Book Club on Facebook, where we discuss the books and authors and choose what we will read next. You can also find out who won today's giveaway, next Monday, when we learn more about this week's author, Robert J. Sawyer!
Born in 1960, Canadian science fiction writer, Robert J. Sawyer, has twenty-one published novels. He has won over forty awards for his fiction! Sawyer may be best known for his novel "Flashforward", which was turned into a popular TV Show. Unfortunately , the show was cancelled after one season, but it did get a lot of press and social media followers. Sawyer was actually a story consultant on each episode of the series and wrote the nineteenth episode, "Course Correction".
"Triggers" actually takes place in the U.S. and has a focus on the President. Terrorists have been attacking the U.S. with a new type of bomb and the President is planning a huge retaliation, however, he is shot during a speech and ends up in the hospital. Meanwhile, another bomb goes off, destroying the White House. At the same time that the bomb is going off, a Canadian memory researcher is using a new device to erase memories. The electromagnetic pulse that the bomb creates makes the memory device expand and causes a group of people to be able to read each other memories! This leads to someone being able to read the President's memories and might lead to the discovery of the retaliation attack that the U.S. is planning against the terrorists.
This was a fantastic read, very fast paced, with well developed characters. There are interesting mysteries as we discover who is involved and who is reading whose memories. I was happy that Robert J. Sawyer wrote the memory researcher as a Canadian who grew up in Toronto and went to a Canadian university. It was a great way to tie in our multi-cultural country. I also love that it's not just science fiction; you can look up things that Sawyer brings up, such as "consciousness" and "quantum entanglement" and you can learn more about the research being done and how it relates to the memory experiments discussed in the book.
A fantastic read and one I highly recommend!
Contest Giveaway:
Here's a chance to win your own copy of Robert J. Sawyer's book, "Triggers" and read along with us! The winner will be announced here when we learn more about Robert J. Sawyer, next week. Just answer the following question in the comment section below to qualify. Be sure to share the contest with your friends and family as well. Comments are moderated, so don't panic if your comment doesn't show up right away! Good luck!
Would you like to be able to read someone else's memories?
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