Friday, October 24, 2014

Lock In

Book Jacket for: Lock inJohn Scalzi has a new book out.  Lock In is essentially a FBI hunts down the bad guys type thriller but Scalzi sets it in an interesting world.  In this world a certain percent of people (not a terribly big percent) suffer from a condition where they have no conscious control over their bodies --- they are locked in.  As a result of this many tools have been developed to allow them to interact with the world physically via robots and virtually in online spaces.  Our narrator, Chris Shane, suffers from Haden’s Syndrome (the condition in question) and is a brand new FBI agent who is assigned to investigate a Haden related murder that proves to be a conspiracy.


The book is easy to read and amusing.  It reminds me a bit of Scalzi’s book The Android’s Dream though it is not quite as good.  I would recommend it to people interested in a thriller who like humor with their action.