Snapshot
by Brandon Sanderson
science fiction
copyright 2018
read in July 2022
rated 6/10: read to pass the time
in an afterword, the author explains that this is a detective story with extra twists. every reader will see twist one... then be surprised by twist two.
as a reader i would definitely be a disappointment. i failed to spot the obvious. then i read both, as just, well that's interesting... failing to realise that either is a clever plot twist.
that's why i don't enjoy whodunits... i miss all the clues then am surprised by simply the existence of a surprise twist.
even if i do know that it's a murder mystery i don't try to spot clues. it's too easy for the author to claim that a fact is a red herring.
so i enjoy this story and don't care how clever the author was with the twists.
but as a science fiction story it is enjoyable. an exploration of the use of some super technology.
it would be more... believable... if he had used the more usual idea of in-the- computer virtual reality (which of course would make nonsense of the entire plot :-).
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