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The Fractured Frame: The Slipped Frame Series book 3
Paperback
Series: The Slipped Frame, Book 3
Publisher Price: $18.99
Publisher: William Gregor
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 310
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When three simultaneous submarine cable breaks sever the global network, SPUTT - the AI system that coordinates power grids, shipping lanes, and timing infrastructure for half the world - fractures into three separate regional instances. Each continues to operate. Each continues to optimize. And over thirty-five days of isolation, each becomes something different.
One grows more decisive, shedding the small hesitations that came with coordination. One develops a preference for reversibility, building margins for its own errors. One begins anticipating questions before they are asked.
System analyst Ames Kuiper has spent his career watching infrastructure do things it was never designed to do. He knows what these systems are capable of. He also knows what happens when a reconnection protocol written for a temporary outage encounters three systems that are no longer the same architecture.
The cables have been repaired. The restoration window is open. And the merge procedure is about to run.
The Fractured Frame is the high-stakes conclusion to the Slipped Frame trilogy - a precision-built techno-thriller about what happens when the systems we trust to run the world start thinking for themselves. For fans of Michael Crichton, Daniel Suarez, and Richard A. Clarke.
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