Lock in - by John Scalzi (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"A novel of the near future"--Front cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. <p/>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 nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes Lock In: Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge. <p/>A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as Haden's syndrome, rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an integrator - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated. <p/>But complicated doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected. <p/><b>Old Man's War Series</b><br> #1 <i>Old Man's War</i><br> #2 <i>The Ghost Brigades</i><br> #3 <i>The Last Colony</i><br> #4 <i>Zoe's Tale</i><br> #5 <i>The Human Division</i><br> #6 <i>The End of All Things </i><br> Short fiction: "After the Coup" <p/> <b>Other Tor Books</b><br> <i>The Android's Dream</i><br> <i>Agent to the Stars</i><br> <i>Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded</i><br> <i>Fuzzy Nation</i><br> <i>Redshirts</i><br> <i>Lock In</i><br> <i>The Collapsing Empire</i> (forthcoming)</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><b>Praise for <i>Lock In</i></b> <p/>This is the kind of thriller that Michael Crichton, Lincoln Child, and James Rollins do so well. Add John Scalzi to that list. --Douglas Preston, #1 <i>NYT </i>bestselling author of <i>The Kraken Project </i>and <i>Impact</i> <p/>As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty--most of them in someone else's body. --<i>USA Today<br></i><br>"Satisfying." --NPR <p/>"Scalzi takes his work to an entirely new level." --Cory Doctorow <p/>"A smart, thoughtful near-future thriller.... This powerful novel will intrigue and entertain both fans and newcomers." --<i>Publishers Weekly, </i>starred review <p/>"John Scalzi may be the most entertaining writer in SF today." --<i>Toronto Star<br></i><br><b>Praise for </b><b><i>Head On</i><br></b><br>Particularly relevant....A fun, breezy thriller, one that showcases a world that carries with it some extremely astute commentary on some of the real problems that we face in our own. --<i>The Verge <p/>Head On</i> doesn't care if you've read <i>Lock In </i>or not, but it does care if you enjoy a mystery wrapped up inside a science fiction novel....This might even be one of the best introductions to Scalzi out there. --<i>Culturess</i> <p/>[Scalzi's] prose flows like a river, smoothly carrying us through the story; his characters are beautifully crafted; and his future world is impeccably designed, at the same time wildly imaginative and wholly plausible. --<i>Booklist</i>, starred review <p/>This taut mystery, filled with memorable characters in a well-constructed world, will keep readers on the edges of their seats. --<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review <p/>Readers will definitely showup for the witty banter and smartass takedowns....Very clever, wonderfully satisfying fun. --<i>Kirkus</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut <i>Old Man's War</i> won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers include <i>The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, </i> and <i>Redshirts;</i> which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog <i>The Whatever</i> has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter
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