Chris Shane is a newly minted FBI agent and also a Haden – one of the people who came down with an illness that left its very few survivors completely unable to move or talk but still able to think. With the help of robot bodies called threeps, Shane and the other Hadens are able to move about the world while their own bodies are cared for by others. On Shane's first day as an FBI agent, Shane and Shane’s new partner Vann are called to a murder scene where the suspected murderer is still there, but not entirely sure he did anything wrong -- his job is to act as a human version of the robot bodies Hadens use, and someone else may or may not have been in control of his body at the time. Shane and Vann set off to find out who the real murderer is, but in this world, that’s not going to be easy.
As in any Scalzi book, there's politics and intrigue and odd humor and a plot line that was drawn with a spirograph but which moves right along and leaves you to keep up. But there’s also a surprising amount of thought taken with regards to prejudice and gender roles and the way that arbitrary lines are drawn in any society. Lock In is a great book for readers of crime novels and sci-fi novels, and would be a great book for those wanting to try those types of stories out for the first time.
--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library
Find Lock In in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.
As in any Scalzi book, there's politics and intrigue and odd humor and a plot line that was drawn with a spirograph but which moves right along and leaves you to keep up. But there’s also a surprising amount of thought taken with regards to prejudice and gender roles and the way that arbitrary lines are drawn in any society. Lock In is a great book for readers of crime novels and sci-fi novels, and would be a great book for those wanting to try those types of stories out for the first time.
--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library
Find Lock In in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.