The Freeze-Frame Revolution

The Freeze-Frame Revolution

Peter Watts

First published 2018Original language EN

7.97.9 / 10
Score out of 10133 ratingsConfidence 48%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
124
Pages
about 2.5 h
Reading time

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“The Freeze-Frame Revolution” builds a short novel on one unnerving idea: a mutiny planned by conspirators who sleep through most of the voyage. Some readers love the concept and still feel distanced from the characters by the time scale and the telling, or lose track of who is who; others find it less intense than Watts’s other work. A compact, thoughtful piece of science fiction at 124 pages.

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About the book

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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    The Freeze-Frame Revolution2018 · 133 ratingsThis book
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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.1 across 133 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.714 11%
Hardcover8.1119 90%

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It has 124 pages — shorter than 99% of the ranked books in Science fiction.

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