There were certain segments that are overly technical, and my eyes did gloss over a bit, but 95% of the novel is easily accessible.
The story is paced excellently, and the chapters all seem to fly by.
He creates a future so easily believable and accessible that it’s hard not to fall in love with its originality. But Scalzi does find excellent ways to change the game. It’s an age old trope that the genre just can’t shake. Naturally this mystery goes far far deeper than meets the eye.Īs is typical with most mysteries, they generally begin with a body. They get mixed in on a strange case of a murdered Navajo man. The book focuses on Chris Shane, a Haden himself and the son of a billionaire philanthropist, and his first week on the job as an FBI agent, with his self-destructive partner Leslie Vann. Threeps are coming in from all over the country, meaning prejudice and radicalism is causing a surge in Hadens related acts of violence and vandalism. This sets the stage for the Hadens walk out in DC, where a large protest is planned at the end of the week.
There’s also the Agora, which is basically a giant virtual space where Hadens have free roam.Ī few decades later and a new law passes, Abrams-Kettering, which will drastically diminish government funding for those infected with Lock In. Companies emerge, producing android-like machines that Haden victims can integrate with to beat paralysis, called Personal Transports (or threeps due to their resemblance to “a beloved android character from one of the most popular films of all time”). With such a large portion of the world now paralyzed, government funding on projects to help aid these ones back to functionality is extremely high (for those that can’t afford integrators). A small minority of Haden victims were spared paralysis, but their brains were altered to allow Integration, meaning other Hadens can take control of the Integrators bodies to live out their day to day. But many experienced full paralysis while still completely conscious – this being called Lock In. Most only came over with a fever that quickly subsided. A powerful disease sweeps the world, infecting millions, and would come to be known as Haden’s Syndrome. Lock In is a one-off science fiction mystery novel that takes shape in the near future. And I didn’t realize I bought a signed copy, which was a pleasant surprise! But at New York Comic Con I chose to pick up Lock In instead, having heard plenty of positive feedback from the new title, and having finally gotten around to reading it I can say it’s extremely well-deserved praise. I was mostly interested in Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series, especially after it was announced that SyFy channel would be adapting it for television. John Scalzi is one of those authors I’ve been meaning to read up on for some time, but never gotten around to.
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