This was fantastic. Scalzi is a brilliant writer and Wheaton a brilliant narrator. They are quite the team. It's a scifi mystery adventure. The worst "flu" epidemic takes out a huge portion of the population in three stages. First it's basic flu symptoms, many people died. But for those who...
Loved it. Loved the writing, loved the characters, loved the story. I loved the “what if” of the idea of the story. I loved how the concepts of body autonomy and consent and disabilities and discrimination and community are toyed with. The only reason this wasn’t a five star is that I was a little t...
A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and ne...
Listened to this in audiobook format via Audible. That particular version is about 10 hours long and the last 2 hours or so is the added in meta-history companion novella for main story, called Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome. The main story, Lock In, is narrated by Wil Wheaton alone. ...
Scalzi may as well start writing stage plays, so heavily dialogue dominated has his prose become. Here we have a bunch of interesting issues related to disability, medicine and modern society, wrapped around by a police procedural murder mystery, which in itself was fun enough. The issue closest...
This wasn't what I expected it to be. I think there is a potential for a real psycho horror story here, which if I am honest, was what I was expecting. However, it turned out to be an interesting crime story with moral issues to think about even when the book is finished. So, although I had a comple...
I really like the premise of this book. The idea of a virus causing people to get locked inside their own bodies is highly intriguing and after reading the short story I was really looking forward to be reading this book. But upon finishing it I have to say that I´m slightly disappointed. Lock in ...
DNF 41%I couldn't bring myself to pick this back up. It turned into a detective story and it just wasn't working for me. That wasn't at all what I expected.
And Again finds a group of 4 people just as they are emerging from the first stages of an experimental medical procedure that will implant their memories into cloned, genetically perfect, replica bodies. As part of the SUBlife program that provided each person an out from terminal illness, they are ...
To give an idea of what to expect from this book, let me just say that I started this book at 3:00PM and finished it at 9:30PM in the same day. This isn't unusual for a John Scalzi book, but if you're new to him, know that you might want to wait until you have a chunk of uninterrupted time.I like Sc...
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