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Watts writes with a fluid, aggressive style that drips with interesting hard-sci fi concepts while wrapping you in the emotions of his characters. He's not for everyone: for the most part, his world building tends to focus on the dark side of humanity's foibles. Read his Rifters series and you'll know exactly what I mean.

But irrespective, I love his novels and the only complaint I have with this is that it's a novella, which Watts acknowledges in the afterword. Which means you burn through the pages way too quickly. And those pages describe an astounding, millions of years journey, one-way, as a small human crew, governed by a limited AI, weave their way around the galaxy, birthing wormholes for a colossal transit system from a hollowed out asteroid. It is a claustrophobic little world, with the human characters seeing snippets of events as they sleep for millennia at a time in suspended animation.

Our protagonist seems happy with this, was bred for it in fact, but others may not be and is that revolution in the air? Whether you can even be a revolutionary in the gaze of an all seeing AI, and when you're awake for mere days in ten thousand years, and when you may never even meet your collaborators, makes for one interesting question in the plot.

Watts gets into the physics of black holes and wormholes and deep time and such, but it is his turn of phrase that his novels pivot on. Such accessible language, it is a delight to read.

This is a well constructed, hard sci fi novella that I can recommend without hesitation. If you've read other Watts novels, you'll know what to expect. If not, this is an excellent introduction to his style.


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The FreezeFrame Revolution Peter Watts 9781616962524 Books Reviews

Well, for me, at least... My only complaint is that it's just a bloody NOVELLA, as the gifted author insists. I've read his trilogy, which was likewise captivating, and now I'll go hunting for anything I may have missed. Go on, treat yourself!
I really enjoyed this story much like I have enjoyed most of Peter Watts books. I wanted to know more about the "goblins" as that part of the story was really interesting and the book started out with an interaction with the "goblins", but then shifted to the revolution. The extra chapter found in the red text in the book was very interesting(if the website I found the compilation of the red text is to be trusted) and I want a continuation of the short chapter found there and I really liked the idea of a story hidden within the story. I hope that a continuation is released shortly.
Watts is the hardest sci-fi author in town and this, his third (or maybe fourth) outing in the sunflower sequence is amazing.
Following the adventures of an intragalactic stargate construction crew we learn how their revolution came to be against mission planners long since turned to dust.
None of them can be as cruel as all of them.
Watts is by far my favorite SF author. This relatively short (novella?) is not of a kind with his more twisted work (Echopraxia, Rifter series). It's much more accessible, but not necessarily a good intro to Watts. It's more of a standard SF story without the mind-blowing stuff he's so known for. I can recomend it, but if it's your first Watts read you really don't know Watts. Keep going to another book to get a real taste of inspirational insanity.
I agree with some of the other reviewers that this novel seemed both too short, and had a hurried (read unsatisfying) ending. This, even though Mr. Watts' writing style has a lot of his characters' story arcs ending somewhat up in the air, I suppose to leave the reader's imagination to come to their own conclusions.

Don't get me wrong; I like the conflicted characters and the concept of an asteroid-sized ship circling at sub-light speed around the galactic core, dispensing transfer gates back to old Earth over millions of years, and the drama arising from the crew when the voyage turns endless. But cliffhangers are for the serial story arcs that you'd find in a multi-novel space opera, or other -ilogy. We may have to wait for a series of yet-to-be-published short stories to fill in the blanks.

The three short stories that Peter Watts has so far published with the Chimp and Sunday Ahzmundin in his Sunflower cycle universe - The Island, Hotshot and Giants - jump around chronologically. Some day soon (I hope) we can look forward to the publishing of an omnibus collection linking all these stories together into a neat timeline, with a clear if not satisfying ending, even if it's an unhappy one - considering the predicaments at the end of FFR - for Sunday and the other benighted crew of the Eriophora.
You should read the Freeze Frame Revolution if you enjoyed the authors' other (free, online) stories set in this universe Giants, Hotshot, and The Island. This story fleshes out details only hinted at previously.

I never thought that having all your physical needs taken care of could still leave one a slave, but thanks to this story I can see a way. And the end of that seventh story actually made me feel my skin crawl.

Hard SF, political commentary, anarchist cookbook, locked-room puzzle. Take your pick it's all in there.
Watts writes with a fluid, aggressive style that drips with interesting hard-sci fi concepts while wrapping you in the emotions of his characters. He's not for everyone for the most part, his world building tends to focus on the dark side of humanity's foibles. Read his Rifters series and you'll know exactly what I mean.

But irrespective, I love his novels and the only complaint I have with this is that it's a novella, which Watts acknowledges in the afterword. Which means you burn through the pages way too quickly. And those pages describe an astounding, millions of years journey, one-way, as a small human crew, governed by a limited AI, weave their way around the galaxy, birthing wormholes for a colossal transit system from a hollowed out asteroid. It is a claustrophobic little world, with the human characters seeing snippets of events as they sleep for millennia at a time in suspended animation.

Our protagonist seems happy with this, was bred for it in fact, but others may not be and is that revolution in the air? Whether you can even be a revolutionary in the gaze of an all seeing AI, and when you're awake for mere days in ten thousand years, and when you may never even meet your collaborators, makes for one interesting question in the plot.

Watts gets into the physics of black holes and wormholes and deep time and such, but it is his turn of phrase that his novels pivot on. Such accessible language, it is a delight to read.

This is a well constructed, hard sci fi novella that I can recommend without hesitation. If you've read other Watts novels, you'll know what to expect. If not, this is an excellent introduction to his style.