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Snapshot
Snapshot Dragonsteel edition.jpg
by Howard Lyon
Setting Earth (Reckoners)
Released February 17, 2017
This article is about the novella. For the construct itself that is the setting of the novella, see Snapshot (event).

Snapshot is a non-cosmere science fiction novella by Brandon Sanderson.[1] It takes place in the Reckoners multiverse.[2]

“If you could re-create a day, what dark secrets would you uncover?

From New York Times number-one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson comes a detective thriller in a police beat like no other.

Anthony Davis and his partner, Chaz, are the only real people in a city of 20 million, sent there by court order to find out what happened in the real world 10 days ago so that hidden evidence can be brought to light and located in the real city today.

Within the re-created Snapshot of May 1, Davis and Chaz are the ultimate authorities. Flashing their badges will get them past any obstruction and overrule any civil right of the dupes around them. But the crimes the detectives are sent to investigate seem like drudgery - until they stumble upon the grisly results of a mass killing that the precinct headquarters orders them not to investigate. That's one order they have to refuse.

The hunt is on. And though the dupes in the replica city have no future once the Snapshot is turned off, that doesn't mean that both Davis and Chaz will walk out of it alive tonight.”

—Amazon.com summary[3]

Summary

For a chapter by chapter summary, see /Summary.

Davis and his partner Chaz try to find a serial killer inside a Snapshot.

Development

The initial draft of Snapshot was written during March 2016 during a trip to Dubai.[4][5]

Publication History

Limited Hardcover Edition
2017 - Vault Books[5]
Ebook Edition
2017 - Dragonsteel Entertainment[5]
Con-Exclusive Hardcover Edition (possibly with Dreamer)
2017 - Dragonsteel Entertainment[5]

Cover Art Gallery

  • Vault Books limited edition hardcover

  • Dragonsteel ebook edition & con-exclusive hardcover edition

Notes

  1. ↑ Snapshot is not cosmere.
    — Twitter - Jul 22nd, 2016#
  2. ↑ It's one of the Other Core Possibilities.
    — Reddit - 2016-12-19#
  3. ↑ Amazon.com summary
    — amazon.com #
  4. ↑ Snapshot written during Dubai trip.
    — Twitter - Jul 22nd, 2016#
  5. ↑ a b c d Brandon's Limited Edition Snapshot Pre-order announcement
    — Brandon's website - Jul 22nd, 2016#
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