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Throughout, Sanderson asks us to consider the difference between reality and perception.

Sarah Deeming in The British Fantasy Society explains that "This is a multi-layered story examining perception and reality.

On 1 May they uncover hidden evidence of a grisly mass murder but the authorities have ordered them to ignore it.Īn audiobook version of the book was released on February 17, 2017, by, read by narrator William DeMerritt.

They are sent into snapshots whose badges enable them to uncover crimes based on the real city. Detectives Anthony Davis and his partner Chaz are the only real people in the city of 20 million. The Snapshot Project has been inherited by an independent city-state called New Clipperton, which enables it to recreate a day up to 10 days in the past and used to investigate the crimes on that date. I wrote it furiously, having only about a week’s time to finish it, and I’m very pleased with the product: a kind of cyberpunk–detective thriller mashup." Plot introduction He said " Snapshot is one of those stories that, once I had the idea, wouldn’t leave me alone. Sanderson wrote this novella during a trip in the United Arab Emirates. Everything is perfect about the snapshot of this new era and new ways of investigating something that had happened in the past.Snapshot is a novella by American author Brandon Sanderson published in 2017. William DeMeritt is a new voice for Brandon’s work but it is a mature and seasoned voice that portrays this fine tale. Just like in Words of Radiance and Oathbringer the book has sensation and enthusiasm but the idea of the recreated world is different and no doubt it is attractive too. The two in their desperation start to enter the domain behind their boundary line and find a new picture of the real world they live in. Though they were given full charge of the snapshot, they were still ordered by the authorities not to investigate a case related to a massive killing that was part of the recreated snapshot. The more they try the more complex the whole thing becomes, finally the two detectives think of trying something out of their premises.

In the city with twenty million recreated people only the two detectives seem to have the upper hand but still the puzzle is too tough to handle. They get straight orders from the court to enter into the recreated world where they are the supreme authority to look for clues. Brandon Sanderson adopts those new methodologies in his latest novel about a day that the two detectives try to recreate so that they can get hold of things that have caused havoc in the whole city.Īnthony Davis and Chaz the two detectives of the current era come to investigate a case that started ten days ago. Detective novels are really changing their approach according to the new technologies that are being used today.