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Lock In

John Scalzi

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Lock In by John Scalzi. https://www.tor.com/2014/05/21/lock-in-john-scalzi-excerpt-c... (https://www.tor.com/2014/05/21/lock-in-john-scalzi-excerpt-chapter-1/) Wil Wheaton's narration is great too. I listened to the audiobook and think about it a lot. It's a techno whodunit — hacking and cracking neural dust/lace, remotely renting and operating physical bodies and committing crimes while “occupying” them, and bio/techno ethics all play a role. In Scalzi's future, locked-in patients receive so much government funding to improve their lives that they gain more abilities and advantages than those who aren't “locked in”, which makes for an interesting inversion.