Robert Sawyer’s 1999 novel Flashforward is expected to debut as an ABC television series this fall – under the same title, split into two words.

People in Flash Forward have visions of deaths, relationships gone wrong and other significant events six months in the future, but as their lives unfold, it appears there are ways to circumvent what might otherwise seem to be predestined….

The media are likening the show to Lost. Credited as series creators are David Goyer, one of the writers on The Dark Night and Brannon Braga, a writer-producer on 24 and Enterprise.