Lock in by John Scalzi

Lock in by John Scalzi

The New York Times bestseller, Lock In, is a blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globeMost who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headachesBut 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 stimulusThe disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creedThe world changes to meet the challenge

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 VannThe 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 timeIf the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated

But complicated doesn't begin to describe itAs 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 imaginedThe world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any costThe 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 cultureIt's nothing you could have expected

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The Android's Dream
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Lock In
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Scalzi, John: - John Scalzi won the 2006 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, the 2013 Hugo Award for Best Novel for Redshirts, and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for Hugo Award as well. His other books include The Ghost Brigades, The Android's Dream, The Last Colony and The Human Division. He has won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award for science-fiction, the Seiun, The Kurd Lasswitz and the Geffen awards. His weblog, The Whatever, is one of the most widely-read web sites in modern SF. Born and raised in California, Scalzi studied at the University of Chicago. He lives in southern Ohio with his wife and daughter.

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ISBN 13	9780765375865
ISBN 10	0765375869
Title	Lock in
Author	John Scalzi
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Tor Books
Year published	2014-08-26
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Alex Awards 2015, Commended for John W. Campbell Memorial Award 2015, Short-listed for Locus Awards (Science Fiction) 2015
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