The book description says it all, so no need for me to summarise. I had loved Blake Crouch's two previous books - Recursion and Dark Matter - so I was excited to read this short story. I found myself yawning while reading the first few pages. I'll admit I was tired, but I was getting impatient for the story to really start. When you have 75 pages to work with, you don't waste your word count on loads of superfluous details and long descriptions, although a few of them were of some importance later on.
SUMMER FROST is written in first person from Riley Ejeta's perspective. Riley is a woman, which I would never have guessed if it hadn't been mentioned. I wonder if Mr. Crouch wrote Riley out of political correctness, but the author should stick to male protagonists' POVs. In a way, this is part of what I found problematic with the story, and not the length as is often the case with short stories. The story is complete, the writing flows well and is technically sound, but all the characters are uniformly flat. I honestly didn't care what happened to any of them. The premise, while not particularly original, is interesting but the characters are not. Sadly, I found SUMMER FROST cold and unexciting, but I will probably get the whole series because there are authors I'd like to read, and the topics are fascinating.
I have not listened to the audible version; I might do it at some point.
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Veronica Roth’s “Ark”: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1BH20S06203HK/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
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Andy Weir’s “Randomize”: https://www.amazon.com/review/R314XTTT53LDYH/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
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And then, one of the creations eludes the video plot guardrails with the help of the developer. And, like Pygmalion and Galatea, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, a dance of infatuation unfolds. In this tale it is Riley, the female lead and Max, her VR female creation.
Part of the Amazon Forward Collection, Blake Crouch’s 2019 short story, “Summer Frost”, explores a future direction technology might take when artificial intelligence moves beyond the confines of its servers aided by its human handler.
A fascinating, quickly paced, trim tale of susceptibility, mortality and perhaps immortality addressing the question: do I create you or do you create me?
A few years back, William Hertling explored related lines of tech’s unexpected potential in his quartet of “Singularity” futuristic novels focusing on the man-AI evolving relationship with similar humorous and chilling details to Crouch’s imaginative world.
Crouch has a deft touch worthy of the Twilight Zone and worth pursuing in more of his stories.
(Here are the links to my Amazon reviews for other Forward Collection short stories:
Amor Towles’ “You Have Arrived at your Destination”:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R3I9Q3EY81DYTF/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
Veronica Roth’s “Ark”: https://www.amazon.com/review/R1BH20S06203HK/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
Paul Tremblay’s “The Last Conversation”: https://www.amazon.com/review/R2Q3HWY0SCW9R5/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
NK Jemisin’s “Emergency Skin”:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R1WKFGRTWHEROB/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
Andy Weir’s “Randomize”: https://www.amazon.com/review/R314XTTT53LDYH/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8
William Hertling’s: “Singularity” Series (first three books): https://www.amazon.com/review/R1YBE0QZK36LB5/ref=cm_cr_srp_d_rdp_perm?ie=UTF8)
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