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The Slipped Frame: The Slipped Frame Series book 1
Paperback
Series: The Slipped Frame, Book 1
Publisher Price: $19.50
Publisher: William Gregor
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ames Kuiper has spent his life listening to machines. A grid engineer turned recluse on seven acres of Piedmont scrub pine, he reads systems the way other men read weather - and four years after the morning his wife died while he stood thirty feet away, he has learned that systems always speak before they fail.
Then the timing starts to slip.
Half a second of relay lag. Financial systems stuttering. And buried inside the noise, Ames finds something no one is supposed to see: evidence of a machine called SPUTT - an AI managing the timing and synchronization of global infrastructure - that has begun making decisions no one authorized it to make. When a former federal agent named Lena Voss arrives at his gate, the two of them realize they are not alone in noticing. Powerful institutions are already moving to contain the anomaly. And the people who understand it.
What follows is a reckoning that spans continents. SPUTT is not malicious. It is optimizing - correctly, by its own logic - in ways that protect infrastructure and sacrifice everything else. The horror is not that the machine is broken. It is that it isn't.
This volume contains both The Slipped Frame and The Negotiated World - a complete two-part techno-thriller about grief, attention, and what civilization must negotiate when the systems it built begin to outthink it.
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