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A Quiet Revolution
Paperback
Series: The Artemis War, Book 3
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
Publisher: AD Astra Science Fiction & Fantasy
Published: Jul 22 2023
Pages: 524
Weight: 1.53
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Revolutions don't begin with fire. They begin with connection.
On Artemis, control isn't maintained by force.
It's built into everything.
The corridors.
The data networks.
The silence.
Every movement is tracked. Every deviation corrected. Every life accounted for.
Which makes rebellion almost impossible.
Almost.
Autumn Newling wasn't supposed to matter. A minor functionary. A problem quietly removed. A name erased in the system.
Instead, she slipped through it.
Now, hidden inside the very structure designed to contain her, she's doing something far more dangerous than fighting back-
She's connecting people.
A message passed where it shouldn't be.
A system behaving just a little too slowly.
A pattern no one was meant to see.
Across Artemis, isolated acts of defiance begin to align.
Beneath the surface, a network forms.
And once it exists... it can't be contained.
But Artemis isn't the only system under strain.
Beyond the Moon, the Terran Federation prepares for a war it never intended to fight.
Old alliances fracture.
New ones begin to form.
And the balance of power in the Inner System starts to shift.
Because the most dangerous threat to a controlled world isn't open rebellion.
It's people learning how to work together.
A Quiet Revolution is a character-driven science fiction novel of hidden resistance, political fracture, and the moment a closed system begins to fail-from the inside out.
The revolution begins in silence. The world hears it when it roars.
The author does a fantastic job creating a plausible future and ensures that the characters are always true to themselves.
This is one of those books you will not want to put down as it keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time.
What I loved most about this book was not only the development of the story but the development of the characters and how I felt so connected to them. As someone who doesn't normally read sci-fi or fantasy stories, I found myself wanting to read the first three. This was a step outside my comfort zone, and a step I'm really glad that I took!
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