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Overview

At the turn of the century, a technology was created which allowed people's thoughts to be monitored as electromagnetic wavelengths and frequencies. In 2012, the Frequency Emissions Act was passed, creating a special division of the FBI, the Freemon, or Frequency Emissions Monitors, to isolate and detain individuals who infected others with their illegal frequencies. After a wave of mass arrests, a world of convenience and security materializes...

It is now 2051.
The place, Seattle.
An ordered world is about to get shaken up.
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Editorial Reviews

Sacramento News & Review
A futuristic exploration of the dichotomy between freedom and security.
Seattle Times
A cult hit.
Seattle Weekly
In the tradition of 1984, Brave New World, and Fahrenheit 451, ((FREQUENCIES)) is a meditation on the place of the individual in a society increasingly equipped to infringe.
Talebones Magazine
Leaves the reader breathless...((FREQUENCIES)) springs a surprise twist very few are likely to anticipate. The characters are richly drawn...and Ortega’s narrative skills measure up to the material quite nicely. An attractive read.
Publishers Weekly
In Joshua Ortega's first novel, ((Frequencies)), the citizens of the technologized nations of A.D. 2051 can have bio-"gengineered" body parts and modems in their brains, but jaded Agent McCready, whose job is to investigate frequency emissions violations, prefers 20th-century sensibilities. When he signs on to protect the family of a wealthy tech-magnate, he gets more than he bargained for: skeletons (or clones) in the closet, the magnate's beautiful daughter, potentially lethal informational infections, life-threatening danger and a cherry 1957 Chevy. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
Just 40 years after the Frequency Emissions Act authorized the microchipping of humans in order to control their violent tendencies, a rash of "freekers" individuals driven insane by their microchips threatens the stability of society. Ortega's first novel portrays a 21st-century society on the verge of breakdown or transfiguration. Combining straightforward storytelling with experimental prose, this eccentric tale of conspiracy and cosmology belongs in large sf collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781588720696
  • Publisher: Jodere Group
  • Publication date: 3/28/2003
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.42 (w) x 9.28 (h) x 1.36 (d)

First Chapter

Chapter 1:
Law and Order



"It was as if an infinite number of frequencies had converged at one single point in space and time, their combined vibrations forming a seemingly coherent structure out of an apparently random disarray. Order out of chaos...



The red lighting of the surrounding garage projected onto Marc McCready's face like a dull, unfocused laser sight. He eased back into the soft Gelaform™ cushioning of the driver's seat, placed his left thumb upon the dashboard scanner, and apathetically spoke his current password, "Whatever."

The uniview screen mounted in the car's central console glowed to life, quickly resonating into the Ordosoft™ logo-the Greek letter alpha melded with the "r" in the word "Ordosoft™." The corporation's symbol then morphed into a cartoonish image of Marilyn Monroe in a white dress.

"Biochip scan and password/voicewave confirmation completed," the attractive toon stated in the digitally-sampled voice of its famous likeness, each word blending together flawlessly with its facial animation. "Good morning, Agent McCready."

"Yeah, we'll see," McCready said with a small yawn. He placed his tongue behind the bridge of his teeth and sucked in a few times, tasting the bitter aftertaste that the instant latté had left in his mouth. "Voice-rec on."

"Voice recognition activated," sounded Marilyn's vocals throughout the car's encircling speaker system, as her cartoon counterpart tilted her head to one side and gave a cheerful smile.

McCready rubbed his eyes and face with the palm of his left hand, halfheartedly attempting to wipe away the drowsiness that he had been feeling all morning. The attempt failed. He wasn't surprised.

"Patch me through to HQ," he said.

"Connecting to Freemon Headquarters, Seattle division." The cartoon Marilyn morphed into an image of the department's logo-a circle around the face of a spotted owl, its pitch-black eyes gazing directly out at the viewer. "Secure sattelink confirmed. One moment, please."

"N.J., deactivate vocal confirmation," McCready said, his stare remaining fixed upon the iconic owl. "You don't need to tell me everything you're doing." He always found himself drawn to the logo, even though he'd seen the image thousands of times. There was something in the owl's gaze... The way it looked at you. Like it knew.

"That's unusual, Marc," observed the Chevrolet®, sensually accentuating each syllable it spoke, "you normally prefer vocal confirmation."

"Well, sweetheart," McCready said, "I guess things change, don't they?"

The Freemon logo transformed into the head and shoulders of fellow agent Erik Takura, who was currently seated in front of the uniview screen located at his desk, the usual cheshire grin stretched wide across his face. "McCready," he said with a subtle laugh, "you supposed to be up yet, slick? I don't think your face is quite ready to show itself to the world today."

"And yours is?" McCready asked bluntly, as he looked over Takura's visage. Multiple piercings on his ears, eyebrows, nose, and lower lip. Raven-black hair to his shoulders, the ends split and dyed pumpkin-orange. An intriguing blend of Japanese and European facial features. Green eyes the shape of a cat's, the product of gengineered, cybernetic implants.

"Always," Takura replied, his grin widening to reveal his perfectly straight, immaculately white rows of teeth. "What's goin' down?"

"You're the one with the sattelink in his head, you tell me." McCready shifted slightly in his seat, molding the Gelaform™ to the contours of his back. "Any freeker activity I should check out before I come down there?"

"Hold on a sec," he said, "let me look."

McCready could always tell when Takura went online. Erik's head would slightly twitch, his feline pupils would dilate, and the ever-present grin would momentarily droop down at the corners of his mouth. This all happened in the span of about two seconds, and then he was back to normal. Or, McCready thought, at least as normal as a human with an optic microprocessor and a wireless modem in his brain could be.

"Okay," Takura said, talking out loud as he mentally surfed the data waves. "Accessing freereads...scanning for freeker activity... Crossreferencing location, occurrence frequency, proximity of others... Wetwyre™ in Kirkland has some activity, but Ignacio's already responded..."

Ignacio was on a case. Now McCready had something to look forward to. Even if his day turned out to be as sh*tty as his morning, at least he could count on a twisted tale from Ignacio.

"...Boeing®, no...Microsoft®, no...okay, here we go-I think I got something," Takura said, as he thumbed a gold lip ring. "Farmaceutical Solutions™ in Redmond...there's a steadily increasing freeker reading from an employee, a Lee Samuels...it's not the first instance, either... Corpos haven't been alerted yet, so I'm assuming he1s not being real vocal about his thoughts, but there are quite a few other employees near him should he decide to get chatty... Yeah, this one's worth checking out. I'm sending the GPS coordinates to your car right now. From your current West Bellevue location, it shouldn't take long to get there."

A falter in the grin, pupils contracting, and a jerk of the head, Takura was offline.

McCready stared at Takura for a moment, wondering what it would be like to experience cyberspace that intimately, to immerse yourself within the electronic matrix just by thinking the thought. No external wires or electrodes, no screens, no gogs, no contacts... All of it occurring within the confines of your cybernetically augmented brain. What would that be like? He hastily disregarded the question like an executioner considering a condemned man's innocence, deciding that he had no interest whatsoever in finding the answer out for himself.

"What?" Takura asked, noticing McCready's pause.

Nothing, McCready thought. But the feeling expressed itself vocally anyways. "I don't think I could ever do what you do, Erik-have cerebral implants installed in my head."

Takura's grin became a full-blown smile, accompanied with a loud laugh. "That's because you1re a relic, McCready! Look at you. You got a car named after a twentieth-century movie star, you pack a weapon with bullets, and you have the most archaic piece of bionic hardware on the whole squad. Face it, slick," he said with a shrug of the shoulders, "you're just not ready for the future yet."

McCready briefly glanced down at his artificial limb, then back to the uniview screen. "F*ck you, borg-boy," he said with an uneasy snicker, realizing that the younger Freemon's words had a ring of truth about them. "I'm as ready as anyone."

"Hey, don't convince me," he said. "Convince yourself. I'll see you when you get here." The image of Takura briefly morphed back into the accusatory owl, then continued its metamorphosis until it was once again the Marilyn toon.

McCready raised his right hand in front of his face and pulled the black, leather glove from off of it, revealing the titanium/aluminum alloy prosthesis which had been hidden underneath. "Archaic, huh?" he muttered to himself as he wiggled his five artificial digits, each of their individual motions producing a barely-audible whirring sound. Well, he had to admit, it certainly wasn't state of the art. He could've chosen the model with near-perfect neurological stimulators and a grafted, gengineered skin surrounding it. Or the luxury option-having a genetically accelerated clone grown from your DNA, then removing the needed limb from the clone's body and integrating it into your own... But both of these possibilities required some type of direct brain stimulation, either through implants or neurochemical injections-and McCready didn't want anything or anyone f*cking around with his head. Sh*t, it was bad enough already that everyone in the technologized nations had freereads grafted onto their skulls. Anything else only added insult to injury.

"Marc," Norma Jean said, "the coordinates that Agent Takura transmitted have been programmed into my global positioning system. I'm ready to engage the frequency emissions violator when you are."

"Right. Time to get to work," McCready replied, pulling the glove snugly over his bionic hand and flexing it into a fist a few times to make sure the fit was tight. "Let's do it."
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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 22, 2003

    Absoultely astounding

    This book is amazing. The story is so rich, detailed, and believable, and five pages are all it takes to get completely lost within the book. I heartily recommend it to anyone looking for a good read.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 17, 2003

    FREEKY!

    Great read! Totally captivating. Joshua Ortega is a brilliant writer, creating a fictitous, but not so hard to believe futuristic Seattle. You'll get action, excitement and a little taste of what may be to come. An interesting look into the future, and a little FREEKY!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 27, 2003

    Excellent read!

    Frequencies grabbed me right out of the gate and I honestly couldn't put it down until it was done. Well written and thought out, Ortega has created some great and memorable characters in Frequencies

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2003

    Really interesting read.

    Well written, interesting style, cool storyline.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2003

    Excellent!

    I was intriqued within the first few pages. Was a great read!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2003

    Will Read Over & Over

    This book grabbed me from the 1st page and I couldn't stop reading until I was done. One of the best 1st books I've ever read. I'm looking forward to more books from Mr. Ortega

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 21, 2002

    One of the best Science Fiction Books

    This book is just great ! I really like the way the plot and the setting of story is. I would recommend it to all science fiction readers

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2002

    ((Frequencies)) - a great (first) novel!

    Great book. Josh creates a future Seattle, and society, that is both scary and worryingly plausible. I'm looking forward to the sequel!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 23, 2001

    A novel that crosses the genres of sci-fi and suspense

    The first page just sings off the page and grabbed me with the descriptive prose and sardonic voice. I could see Seattle 2051 shimmer and morph before my eyes as the pages turned. The beginning of the book builds slow as Ortega introduces the reader to intricate, yet well-defined characters who linger in your imagination long after the story ends. Where ((Frequencies)) could once have been considered a stretch of the imagination, it's evident in our post-September 11 world that this novel ironically mirrors life. In an effort to control terrorists at the turn of the millennium -- following a 7-year stretch of time known as the Terror Years ¿ the government implements a new type of technology that reads brain waves (frequency emissions) like a polygraph detector. The Freemon or FREquency Emissions MONitors (agents of a special division of the FBI) monitor communities for evidence of violators who emit brain waves that fall into the overly active omega range that is typical of subversive thinkers and terrorists. (Side note: ¿Wired Daily News¿ reported recently that Lawrence Farwell, a neuroscientist from Iowa, helped develop a real life neuro-imaging test that is being field-tested with some success by the FBI.) In the government¿s zeal to maintain peace and control evil, the Freemon are accorded excessive power and lord it over the nation, like Big Brother in the age of Blade Runner. The pace of the novel quickens in a rush, revealing a plot twist that hits with the force of a synaptic disruptor. On the surface level, this is a highly enjoyable read. Peel back a few layers, and you realize there is a depth and complexity to the novel that is not immediately evident. The infinity symbol and Omega, delta, and alpha characters representative of various frequencies within the electromagnetic spectrum also symbolize main characters in the book. Ortega has included a glossary that not only defines various technical terms and concepts, but contains additional information that was not evident in the story. Detail lovers will find a treasure trove to explore in both the content and book design. My only critique is that I would have liked to have seen more conflict resolution with a few of the characters ¿ Ignacio, McCready, Ashley and her brother ¿ to wrap up what is promised to be the first in a trilogy. Overall, though, I highly recommend this read. Ortega is definitely an author to watch.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 28, 2001

    f**kin' A

    This is the best book that I have read in a very, very long time. It's plot has an amazing depth, the technological descriptions are incredible, offering the reader an easy visualization of technologies and gadgets never before imagined, and the character development has a quality akin the the plot's depth. a message that will likely catalyze a personal evolution of conscioussness for the reader. I highly, highly reccomend this book to EVERYONE, regardless of their personal literary tastes.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 13, 2000

    Frequencies frequently freaked me out

    How do you sum up a novel in a few lines and quips? I don¿t think it¿s possible, especially with a book like Frequencies. It is a multi-faceted work that can¿t be squeezed into any particular category. You could call it Science Fiction, but that would be selling it short. Not that it doesn¿t possess many excellent qualities you would expect from that genre. It has a well thought out futuristic vision of Seattle and possesses many thought provoking parallels with our own reality. But the real key to my enjoyment of this book was the character development. These were people that came to life off the pages and their thoughts and actions made me think. Not that you¿ll agree with all of them, but they will make you examine your own convictions. And a book that does that is definitely worth reading.

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