Flowers from Longwood Garden's Orchid show

Writing: I just read Robert J. Sawyers' "Flashforward." I have been watching the television show inspired by the book. And they do mean inspired. The book and the show are about an event that causes everyone to blackout and flash on what they are doing in the future. One character doesn't have a vision because he had been murdered. A single character makes the transition from the book to the small screen. Other than that the stories are different. The series follows FBI agents trying to figure out why people flashed ahead six months. Sawyers' book is from the scientists' point of view. They caused the flashforward and people see more than twenty years in the future.

Lesson for writers: When an author sells his book to another media, his story is no longer his.
Lesson for readers: Read the book! The book will add depth to your enjoyment of the story you saw on the screen.