Peter Watts. (2018). The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Tachyon Publications.

Peter Watts. 2018. The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Tachyon Publications.

Peter Watts, The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Tachyon Publications, 2018.

Peter Watts. The Freeze-Frame Revolution. Tachyon Publications, 2018.

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   • bioText: Peter Watts is a science-fiction writer and a marine-mammal biologist. He is the author of the Rifters trilogy (Starfish, Maelstrom, and Behemoth) as well as Blindsight, The Island and Other Stories, Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes, and his collection, Beyond the Rift. He has received the Aurora, Hugo, and Shirley Jackson awards. Watts lives in Toronto.
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"This—THIS—is the cutting edge of science fiction." —Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties.
Note from the publisher: The red letters in the print edition (highlighted letters in the e-book) indicate special bonus content.

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"This—THIS—is the cutting edge of science fiction." —Richard K. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what's best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties.
Note from the publisher: The red letters in the print edition (highlighted letters in the e-book) indicate special bonus content.

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   • source: Washington Post
   • content: "The Freeze-Frame Revolution is a delicious morsel of hard science fiction . . . The setup of the book is irresistible, and the science is high-concept, but the story is driven by Sunday's relationships and her conviction in herself and her companions."
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   • source: Seattle Review of Books
   • content: "The Freeze-Frame Revolution (Tachyon), the shortest and latest novel from Canadian Peter Watts, is as brilliant and enticingly acute as any of his earlier and longer work."
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   • source: Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
   • content: "The Freeze Frame Revolution is the purest driven high concept SF . . . as vivid and carnal and profane as the headiest of high-end literature."
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   • source: Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Walkaway
   • content: "This is definitely vintage Watts--outstanding, exciting, and terrifying."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: [STARRED REVIEW] "In this short, tight novel that contains vast science-fictional speculation, the human crew of the construction ship Eriophora spends 66 million years building interstellar wormhole gates, so they have lots of time to ponder issues of purpose. Sunday Ahzmundin, on a quest to find a missing crewmate, has to deal with another coworker, Lian, who is traumatized after the ship is damaged by one of the "occasional demons" that pop out of newly opened gates. Dropping in and out of suspended animation as scheduled by the Chimp, the AI that runs the ship, Sunday begins to uncover the secrets behind Lian's subsequent death and the disappearances of other crew members, learning what hides beneath the ship's closed and rigidly structured society. Watts (Echopraxis) puts the concept of humanity under the knife, teasing out how Chimp's programming and Sunday's loyalty can both tie them together and set them at odds. Watts pits the drive toward success against the need for connection, leading to an ending as open and as expansive as the universe. SF fans will love this tale of bizarre future employment and genuine wonder."
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   • source: Foreword
   • content: [STARRED REVIEW] "Entertaining and provocative, brilliant and ambitious, The Freeze-Frame Revolution is compelling science fiction with heart."
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   • source: Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky
   • content: "Fast, rich, and cool--The Freeze-Frame Revolution fascinates!"
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   • source: Paul Levinson, author of The Plot to Save Socrates and The Silk Code
   • content: "A savvy, fast-paced, vivid mix of humans way off-planet, pounding biology, robotics, cyberpunk, and even music. That's right, everything you've come to expect and enjoy from Peter Watts, and maybe a little more. This is one of his best--short, unforgettable, highly recommended."
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   • source: Kelly Robson, author of Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach
   • content: "Peter Watts blows my mind every single time."
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    • source: Vernor Vinge, author of A Fire Upon the Deep
    • content: "Darkness and awesome technology lurk in Peter Watts'new book, The Freeze-Frame Revolution."
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    • source: David D. Levine, author of the Andre Norton Award-winning Arabella of Mars trilogy
    • content: "In The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Peter Watts takes us millions of years into the future and hundreds of light-years away, where an isolated fragment of humanity must confront exotic physics, unfathomable entities, and the unforeseen consequences of their own technologies. But it is a profoundly human story about people, people not unlike us, under inescapable stress. A brilliant, thoughtful story bursting with radical ideas."
12. • premium: False
    • source: Justina Robson, author of Keeping it Real
    • content: "A gripping story of a deep human future--the dependent relationship between human and AI tangles and grows with the delicious creep of suspense to the very last page. Watts is a poet when it comes to science. A pleasure to read."
13. • premium: False
    • source: K. B. Wagers, author of Before the Throne and the forthcoming Farian War trilogy
    • content: "The Freeze-Frame Revolution is a slow-motion rebellion as heart-stopping as any roller coaster ride and will delight readers across the science fiction spectrum. It was a joy to read and I found myself unable to put it down once I got started."
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    • source: A. M. Dellamonica, author of Indigo Springs
    • content: "Peter Watts is a triple threat: exacting hard science extrapolation, an imagination that runs hot enough to give you contact burns, and a gift for thrusting his characters in situations that will expand the mind while shattering even the most guarded of reader hearts. In The Freeze-Frame Revolution, he puts a handful of fragile human beings into a mind-bending, explosive and utterly inhuman situation, and lights a ten-thousand year fuse. Unforgettable!"
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    • source: Hannu Rajaniemi, author of Summerland and The Quantum Thief
    • content: "Watts takes familiar-seeming SF...
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      Starred review from April 16, 2018
      In this short, tight novel that contains vast science-fictional speculation, the human crew of the construction ship Eriophora spends 66 million years building interstellar wormhole gates, so they have lots of time to ponder issues of purpose. Sunday Ahzmundin, on a quest to find a missing crewmate, has to deal with another coworker, Lian, who is traumatized after the ship is damaged by one of the “occasional demons” that pop out of newly opened gates. Dropping in and out of suspended animation as scheduled by the Chimp, the AI that runs the ship, Sunday begins to uncover the secrets behind Lian’s subsequent death and the disappearances of other crew members, learning what hides beneath the ship’s closed and rigidly structured society. Watts (Echopraxis) puts the concept of humanity under the knife, teasing out how Chimp’s programming and Sunday’s loyalty can both tie them together and set them at odds. Watts pits the drive toward success against the need for connection, leading to an ending as open and as expansive as the universe. SF fans will love this tale of bizarre future employment and genuine wonder.

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