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Lock In (Lock In, #1)

John Scalzi

Start date: November 22, 2014

Finish date: December 1, 2014

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Oct 16, 2016 Annet rated it really liked it

Shelves: weird, fantasy

From London City Airport... waiting for my flight with a fresh cappucino...finished this one, great book!!
How shall I describe it... a crime novel in apocalyptic sort of time. Quite unusual, great read.
Recommended & looking forward to the followup, I believe to be published in 2018.

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Sep 29, 2014 Cecily rated it it was ok

Shelves: overrated, dystopian-apocalyptic, scifi-future-speculative-fict, crime-detective-mystery, sexuality-gender-lgbtqi, usa-and-canada

Imagine living your life at one remove, as through a veil; more of a passenger than a protagonist. Would you feel secure, claustrophobic, wanting release - and if so, at what cost? Would it be easier if it was the only existence you'd ever known, or if you had memories of a normal life? What is it that makes us human, anyway - surely not the efficacy of our physical bodies?

I was hooked by the situation, but infuriated by the constant and very crass exposition (for which I downgrade the book), an ...more

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Jan 06, 2015 Judy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi-fantasy, my-2016-books

This is a highly creative story about the near future after a devastating flu-like virus has affected millions of people worldwide (they are called "Hadens"). The people who live through the illness are affected in a variety of ways. How they live with the effects is the real story here. It's easy to relate to Scalzi's vision of what that world would be like -- he's thoroughly developed the details necessary to make it a believable scenario. From the main character, a wealthy politician's son wh ...more

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