What the mass murderer was doing didn’t quite make good sense, either. This could have also tied in better with the theme of aggression. It was foreshadowed some by The Photographer, but the conflict we saw didn’t quite build up enough motivation for the main characters. On the not so positive side, I thought the sudden twist wasn’t that well supported by what had gone on before. The repetition suggests it might be a recurring theme in his work, but there’s no real discussion of it here-Sanderson only presents the contrast, and maybe the difficulty of getting something like this right as an officer of the law. The fact that both men have been taken off regular duty because of aggression issues mirrors a more developed discussion of this in Sanderson’s recent Skyward series. The eventual face-to-face with The Photographer strongly suggests this might be a Snapshot of a Shapshot, in other words, an investigation of crimes committed within a previous Shapshot of the city. There’s an emotional component when Davis sneaks in the visit with his son, followed by later issues with his ex. As usual with Sanderson’s work, it’s strongly plotted, with complexities and a sudden twist at the end that I wasn’t expecting. It sets up the situation and some guys with problems and lets it play out.
Is what they’re doing putting them at risk? Anything they do in the city causes deviations from reality. None of the people in the city are real so they can’t be really killed-except Davis and Chaz. Headquarters orders them not to get involved, but feeling a sense of duty, they cautiously start an investigation. Davis visits his son Hal, successfully avoiding his ex-wife, but then the two detectives get sidetracked when they run across evidence of a mass murderer, The Photographer. They successfully locate a murder weapon, and then they have to wait for evening for their next assignment, a domestic dispute. The two of them have been sent to investigate a crime that took place 10 days ago. Davis thinks the two of them have been taken off regular duty for this because of deficiencies-Chaz is rated too aggressive, and Davis isn’t aggressive enough. This is a technology that can recreate a city of 20 million for a single day as a resource for police investigations.
This review contains spoilers.Īnthony Davis and his partner Chaz are police detectives assigned to the Snapshot project.
It runs 98 pages, and the film rights have been optioned by MGM. This is a futuristic detective novella published in 2017 through Sanderson’s imprint Dragonsteel Entertainment.
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