Title: Lock In
Author: John Scalzi
Year: 2014
Publisher: Tor
Pages: 336
Best preceded by Scalzi's novella Unlocked, a Working/World War Z-style prequel that provides the history on which this novel rests. Lock In is in the style of his The Android's Dream and Agent to the Stars--clever badinage and snappy repartee dominate the dialogue, and characters work together with a synchrony that reminds one of Heinlein's ex-military men.
I read this in conjunction with articles on HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and Ebola, which was a good set of reflective readings. I recommend Sacks's Awakenings as a companion piece for heightened pleasure.
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