Series
Lock In
John Scalzi · 2 novels · 1 novella · 2014–2018
Lock In imagines a near-future pandemic that leaves a fraction of survivors fully conscious but completely paralyzed, able to interact with the world only through robotic surrogates or by borrowing the bodies of rare people whose brains can host another person's consciousness. John Scalzi's series follows a rookie FBI agent investigating crimes that exploit this new class of disability and technology, across the novels Lock In and Head On plus the interstitial oral history Unlocked. It's science-fiction police procedural more than space opera.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(1 edition)
Map
Lock In at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s3
Shape
2 novels · 1 novella
1 author
reads like:science fictionmurder investigationnorth americanear futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Lock Indarkest · most intense
- Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndromebrightest · calmest