There’s nothing like a murder mystery for exploring a strange new world, and that’s exactly what John Scalzi does in Lock In. It’s a wonderfully inventive near-future page-turner with plenty of humor that I devoured in a few days.

A virus has ravaged the world, sending millions into a state of lock-in, where there they are completely conscious, but have zero control over their bodies. They have to be tended to and fed with tubes.

Twenty-five years later, there is no cure, but technology has advanced in interesting ways, and a rookie FBI agent avails himself of that technology to try to solve a bizarre murder case.

Recommendation: Read it! I loved this book.

Dan

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