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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 Scary Artificial Intelligence

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"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

Thought-provoking Concept • Gripping Storytelling • Exceptional Performance • Captivating Protagonist • Emotional Depth
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Fascinating concept of a human AI developer, Riley, falling in love with her creation to the detriment of her marriage and everything else. She is obsessed with educating Max to think and behave like a human. Imagine her surprise when Max attempts to take over Riley and other humans. So far Max is living inside a protective space with access only to Riley. Riley does not know how far Max has developed on her own until it is too late. It is a look at how AI is created, then enhanced, and maybe it could take over the world. Think of the Rise of Machines from the movies. The narrator, Rosa Salazar, was excellent.

Max Is Not Human But Riley Is

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The story started out average but turned into a gripping world of thoughts, progress and reality.

Phantastic story with a sharp endin

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This may be the best story i've ever listened to, and the narrator could not have done a better job. brava

definitely listen to this

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The imagination that is wielded by Blake Crouch is staggering. He takes hard science and is able to make it believable and terrifying. In Summer Frost there is a NPC in an advanced AI game that has gone rogue. A programmer is able to catch it and educate it

Crouch does it again

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This was a solid entry by Mr. Crouch in the AI obsessed world we live in. I love that Max had no gender or physical definition for a gender bc it wasn't human. This reminded me of Ex Machina a lot with the wondering if is the AI good or bad.

AI obession

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Brilliant in age of want to be writers, yet a simple truth and an adventure

Brilliant

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and widely entertaining. Never write reviews, but had to recommend this one. Must read

Fascinating

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It is so tempting to say that will never happen, but Blake’s books are fantastical and simultaneous believable. So close to what’s really happening, but yet still too far away to Fear...maybe?

Still thinking about it

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Narration is sooooo slow. Sounds as if it has been mechanically slowed. Kind of sorry I got this series. Jemisin's wasn't bad at all, but.....

Slow, slow narration.

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