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Summer Frost

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Rosa Salazar
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Audible narration by Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel)

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley is building makes her own impossible decision - veering wildly off course and exploring the boundaries of the map. When the curious Riley extracts her code for closer examination, an emotional relationship develops between them. Soon Riley has all new plans for her spontaneous AI, including bringing Max into the real world. But what if Max has real-world plans of her own?

Blake Crouch’s Summer Frost is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

©2019 Blake Crouch (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Adventure Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller Thriller & Suspense Technology Artificial Intelligence

Critic reviews

"Rosa Salazar provides a dead-on, almost eerie, performance of an AI in this short science fiction story...altering her performance as the AI refines and reinvents itself throughout the story. It's a startling evolution of character, driven home by Salazar’s transition from passive dialogue to gut-punching directness. The story challenges what it means to be human and gives sci-fi listeners some poignant moments to ponder long after the credits end." --AudioFile magazine

"…a sensational project...." --Spine Magazine

“This is exactly how I like my techno-anxiety.... Happy bingeing!" --Audible, an October Editors Pick

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I didn't realise you could get so much depth into a story of this length. Blake, you are a genius.

First rate short story. loved it.

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Irrevocably spellbound by Rosa Salazar's narration of this haunting portrayal. Her vocal cadences allow for a fully immersive voyage. Riley's scenario provokes empathy within the listener, as we experience the duality of Artificial Intelligence with her.

Ethereal Performance

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Gender-neutral pronouns are very confusing when speaking of singular as a plural especially when the character is a digital creation or an it, yes it is sexualized as a female for a storyline in a game if it had been a transgender character it would be more understandable; any way it ruined the flow of the story for a stupid reason.

A good story with a forced pronoun

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Other than the annoying and sometimes confusing use of ‘their’ and ‘they’ to avoid using Gender specifics, this is a fantastically engaging novella. ‘Their’ and ‘they’ suggests more than one person, so it’s difficult on the mind on occasions, but otherwise a highly recommended piece of work by Blake Crouch.

‘Wokeness’ creeps in slightly, but more thought provoking than virtue signalling.

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very good. fairly standard sci fi story of an idea written about by many people.

good story, okay

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