Lock In

So Lindsey Ellis mentioned this on stream, and I've been meaning to read John Scalzi's books, so this was literally my first, but she mentioned the Threeps and disability and capitalism and I was like “SOLD” and got ahold of this book not long after. It's a good book, and she was right, Scalzi has a light sort of writing. The book flies along, it's like a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of adult or scifi books that feel...like an emotionally trying situation. This has emotions to it, but nobody is like, intensely tortured or abused, it's not an intense amount of focus on suffering. We also have a disabled cyborg protagonist. He's a good guy, which is also nice, none of this tortured violent antihero stuff in other books.

As far as the actual plot–it's a detective story, about the system that has risen up around this intensely dangerous and traumatizing disease that affected people of all ages, genders and social classes. It highlights the difference between people who were minimally and maximally effected by the disease, known as Haden Syndrome.