A review by angus_mckeogh
Lock In by John Scalzi

2.0

I hope I’m not getting too old or jaded to read science fiction, and I’m probably against the trend on this one, but I found it just okay. The premise on the back of the book sounded amazing. But the storyline inside just seemed silly. Gratuitous, multiple murders for little motive. Battling robots (who oddly enough cannot really inflict damage on one another and also inexplicably have “installed pain sensors” that are irrationally dialed up to the maximum at various points in the book) with various human “consciousnesses” inside them, ridiculous interrogations of said robots again with different (and hidden) personalities. An appearance by the Navajos. A main character who is comatose and paralyzed in an apartment somewhere but living out his life in a robot avatar. A dad who’s a HOF basketball player. Uh...please. It just got more ridiculous. Oh well. It is what it is. Just not my kind of thing.