I enjoyed listening to this quick adventure new future tale as I did reading it last year. This was a fun read and really looking forward to the sequel coming out..4 Stars and recommended for all fans of the author as well as those who enjoy near future adventure tales.
I enjoyed listening to this quick adventure new future tale as I did reading it last year. This was a fun read and really looking forward to the sequel coming out..4 Stars and recommended for all fans of the author as well as those who enjoy near future adventure tales.
Scalzi is one of those writers who skips from genre to genre, and yet manages to maintain the core tone that gives each genre a distinct feel. This book has all the trappings of a hardboiled mystery, or even a techno thriller, and then throws them into a sci-fi near future setting. It is a page turn...
Approximately 24 years prior to this book's present, the first Haden's syndrome cases began appearing. Many people got sick and died. Some got better and experienced no permanent effects. However, a portion of those who survived the second stage experienced lock in – they were still alive, but were ...
I was into the world that Scalzi creates. Many of his scenes and characters are ruled by a tone of "super-enthusiastic and knowledgeable person geeks out to less knowledgable people" and that grated on me a bit after a while. It got to be info-dumpy. But I do like robot procedurals.
I was into the world that Scalzi creates. Many of his scenes and characters are ruled by a tone of "super-enthusiastic and knowledgeable person geeks out to less knowledgable people" and that grated on me a bit after a while. It got to be info-dumpy. But I do like robot procedurals.
Lock In (Lock In #1) Written by: John Scalzi Narrated by: Wil Wheaton Length: 10 hrs Unabridged Audiobook Release Date:08-26-14 Publisher: Audible Studios Fifteen years from now, a new virus sweeps the globe. 95% of those afflicted experience nothing worse than fever and headaches. Four percent s...
Even with 4.3 million of the United States population being afflicted with this, innovation in science and technology managed to allow human beings who were separate but still part of the day to day society to still be fully functioning. I could tell you more, but I don't want to spoil any readers o...
My first Scalzi, and hopefully not my last. I nearly gave it four stars, but there were quite a few eye-drying info dumps (world-building is hard, yo) and an oopsie or two (poor Janis got randomly called Janice once), and that pretty much covers the negatives. Everything else was awesome. Not quit...
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