![]() ![]() His partner, Leslie Vann, a veteran agent with baggage from her past, is an "Integrator," one of the people whose brain was altered enough to be able to create a neural network with a Haden "client" so they can use a live body. Most "Hadens" use these robotic threeps, though because Shane is kind of a celebrity in the community - and his dad is an NBA legend - he has the top-of-the-line Porsche of threeps while others are more akin to Ford Pintos. He's in his first week on the job in an android body - a "threep" as they're called, a Star Wars reference - that houses his mind and allows him to go about daily life. The condition causes the paralysis of the voluntary nervous system in most, yet a select few simply have their brain structures changed and still have full motor function.įBI rookie Chris Shane is one of the former. ![]() The book begins decades after a killer global flu took out a population of 400 million and left a small percentage of people with Haden's syndrome. ![]() Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty - most of them in someone else's body. Lock In cements the award-winning writer as one of the best in today's sci-fi community as he fashions a near-future society where more than 5 million people are "locked" into their own minds thanks to a vicious contagion.īut as much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. John Scalzi's newest novel is the tale of a different kind of "one percent." ![]()
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