The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Posted on 01 February 2017 by Peter Watts

2019 John W Campbell Memorial Award Finalist This THIS is the cutting edge of science fiction Richard K Morgan, author of Altered CarbonHow 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 The red letters in the print edition highlighted letters in the e book indiNote from the publisher The red letters in the print edition and highlighted letters in the e book indicate special bonus content from the author. Read The Freeze-Frame Revolution Author Peter Watts – kino-fada.fr First of all, this novella is not meant to be read on its own Could be regarded as a standalone, but you ll feel like something is missing And that s because it s part of a series of stories, entitled the Sunflower cycle, which includes threeshort ones so far Publication order is The Island 2009 Winner of Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2010...This is some classy hard hard SF Black hole worm hole drive using new and real theories Hell yeah.But beyond that, I love the whole idea of short periods of wakefulness during a single trip that takes 65 million years Add a rebellion against IBM I mean HAL I mean CHIMP, without expecting anything to go quite the way that 2001 went, or even remotely like it, and we ve got a really fascinating story.Watts knows how to bu...9 out of 10 at sixty five million years, the crew of the starship Eriophora has been building gates to facilitate faster space travel for human expansion The ship is ruled by Chimp, a dumb AI built with a lower synapse count to keep it at relatively human level intelligence, and every few thousand or million or so years a build crew is selected and awakened from among its 30,000 plus population to assist in the logistics of gate construction Sunda 9 out of 10 at sixty five million years, the crew of the starship Eriophor...I really wanted to like The Freeze Frame Revolutionthan I actually did, but in the end it was just too far into hard sci fi territory for me The concept is clever a ship filled with 30 000 or so crew members is on a long term mission to build wormhole bridges throughout the universe And by long term, I m not kidding We re talking 65 million years so far here Each crew member is kept in deep freeze most of the time, with brief few day periods of being thawed to assist the ship s A I really wanted to like The Freeze Frame Revolutionthan I actually did, but in the end it was just too far into hard sci fi territory for me The concept is clever a ship filled with 30 000 or so crew members is on a long term mission to build wormhole bridges throughout the universe And by long term, I m not kidding We re talking 65 million years so far here Each crew member is kept in deep freeze most of the time, with brief few day periods of being thawed to assist the ship s AI withcomplicated builds Which crew members are thawed each time varies, resulting in icy slumbers lasting hundreds or thousands of years at a time Except not everything is going as smoothly as the crew assumes And how do you get to the bottom of the truth when you re only awake for a few days at a time, and the people you re awake with are constantly changing If you re a fan of hard sci fi, then this book might appeal to youth...GRAB IT NOWI just can t begin to tell you how much I loved this book And I know for a fact I will be reading it again, and perhaps soon There are just so many reasons why I could recommend it to you It s a book for the true scifi fan that manages to be refreshing and new, at the same time retaining all the benefits of being basically hard scifi It also raises tough questions about natural versus artificial intelligence and their relationships Which is ...4.5 rounded up to 5 Rating is for the entire Sunflower Cycle series so far I ve held off reviewing this for some time now Once I finished reading it, I just couldn t fully wrap my head around what I had just read In attempting to understand the story better, I went and looked at some other reviews of people who enjoyed the story to hopefully gather so...Three and half stars apologies for my English Briefly I love how Mr Watts writes I like his pessimism and his vital cynicism, and above all, I adore his perspective of life and intelligence In this novel the author maintains the level of madness that has us accustomed but unfortunately I have not understood the end Apparently I am not the only one, and for me this is a nonsense You can see the plot on the cover of the book, a really interesting approach, as well as its development through Three and half stars apologies for my English Briefly I love how Mr Watts writes I like his pessimism and his vital cynicism, and above all, I adore his perspective of life and intelligence In this novel the author maintains the level of madness that has us accustomed but unfortunately I have not understood the end Apparently I am not the only one, and for me this is a nonsense You can see the plot on the cover of the book, a really interesting approach, as well as its development throughout the no...This hard SF novella is eligible for Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award in 2019 This is a part of Sunflower cycle but can be read as a standalone.In order to spread the mankind across the galaxy, a special kind of ship was created an asteroid 10 km in diameter with an artificial black hole and the energy and propulsion This is not as crazy as it sounds, the idea was actually presented in this article by two physicists from 2009 This ship moves at relativistic speeds 10 20% of speed of light acr This hard SF novella is eligible for Hugo, Nebula and Locus Award in 2019 This is a part of Sunflower cycle but can be read as a standalone.In order to spread the mankind across the galaxy, a special kind of ship was created an asteroid 10 km in diameter with an artificial black hole and the energy and propulsion This is not as crazy as it sounds, the idea was actually presented in this article by two physicists from 2009 This ship moves at relativist...There is a lot to like about this book and due to its length there were not any dull or slow spots This was also one of thestraight forward and understandable books I ve read by Mr Watts and I didn t have to look up as much stuff while in the middle of reading I did have s...Watts is the only hard sci fi author I ve found so far whose writing is so dark it s practically black I actually stumbled on him somehow somehow through the horror community Reading Blindsight was like having a religious experience Freeze Frame was just as enjoyable and probablyaccessible due to the novella ish length I imagine Peter Watts isn t for everybody For people with a simultaneous interest in sci fi and horror or dark fiction, he s worth a look If there are any other auth Watts is the only hard sci fi author I ve found so far whose writing is so dark it s practically black I actually stumbled on hi...

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01 February 2017

Peter Watts