The Freeze-Frame Revolution

“Peter Watts is a brilliant bastard of a science fiction writer, whose grim scenarios are matched by their scientific speculation; in his latest, a novella called The Freeze-Frame Revolution, Watts imagines a mutiny that stretches out across aeons, fought against a seemingly omnipotent AI. This is definitely vintage Watts, from the Elder Gods the Eri discovers as it traverses the wormholes it creates, to the imaginative tortures the mutineers use to punish those who betray the rebellion.”

—Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother and Walkaway

“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.”

—Justina Robson, author of Keeping it Real

“If you ever doubted that the core of all good science fiction is still the human heart, here comes Peter Watts to ram the point home. The Freeze Frame Revolution is the purest driven high concept SF, told across scales of time and space to daunt all but the very finest Space Opera practitioners, and yet it remains as vivid and carnal and profane as the headiest of high-end literature.”

—Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon

“Darkness and awesome technology lurk in The Freeze-Frame Revolution.”

—Vernor Vinge, author of A Fire Upon the Deep

“Watts takes familiar-seeming SF tropes and accelerates them towards lightspeed, until they become something chillingly other. A gripping tale where galactic timescales collide with biology and age-old human dilemmas.”

—Hannu Rajaniemi, author of Summerland and The Quantum Thief

“Fast, rich, and cool—The Freeze-Frame Revolution fascinates!”

—Greg Bear, author of Eon and Take Back the Sky

“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… A brilliant, thoughtful story bursting with radical ideas.”

—David D. Levine, author of the Arabella of Mars trilogy

“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.”

—K. B. Wagers, author of Before the Throne

“Entertaining and provocative, brilliant and ambitious, The Freeze-Frame Revolution is compelling science fiction with heart.”

—Foreword, starred review

“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.”

—A. M. Dellamonica, author of Indigo Springs