Summer Frost

Forward collection

De: Blake Crouch

Narrado por: Rosa Salazar

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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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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Max Is Not Human But Riley Is

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.

Brilliant

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

Crouch does it again

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

Phantastic story with a sharp endin

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

definitely listen to this

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

A very enjoyable short story

What if, in programming an NPC for a computer game, you accidentally created a true artificial intelligence? This story explores that idea and what the possible consequences would be of fostering the growth of that intelligence. It's very well done and just plausible enough to be a bit chilling

Loved this one

Probably my favorite in the collection. I always enjoy speculative fiction about AI. Would make a great movie or series!

Good short story

I didn't realize it was a short story when I got it, but a decent listen. The story is well told, but not a lot of surprises here. I really am a huge fan of Crouch, not so much gore in this one though, I don't mind

Wow. The perfect story

I wish I could leave 6 stars for this. It's a standout among great stories and performances.
The perfection of this story arc is probably helped by it being a short story rather than a novel. No indulgences by the author to write tangents but instead just focus on the essential story.
It's a character development type of story where you really get to know the emotions of the protagonist and the AI she meets.
The grace notes of what our near future world looks like are dropped all along the story as almost incidental but really add to the vividness of this world that holds this story. Loved it