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A very effective program that works quickly, easily to the user and serves me as a great help in negotiations with investors. Life itself is hard, of course, with its everyday pitfalls and each individual’s long-term ambitions and disappointments… but for humanity that difficulty is compounded by all of the –isms that exist to divide humanity from itself. It is a mocumentary of how it set on, the way they dealt with it and the way it affected society as a whole. It does a splendid job at seamlessly integrating a sci-fi story with a police procedural, making it a fun and thrilling ride.

A murder mystery, some great characters and a fast moving pace kept me reading with great curiosity. It also covers the politics: the huge investment in (and therefore profit from) treatments, followed by the recent Abrams-Kettering bill, meaning there would be huge cuts in US government funding. I can't be bothered to go into it as it didn't really captivate me; I'm sure other reviews cover it. One more example of his awareness of sociopolitical issues and how different groups react to adversity. Add to all this a murder mystery, even more detail on those locked-in, and you have a fabulously entertaining story which Will Wheaton did a great job in narrating.We follow one locked-in survivor from his first day as an FBI agent – yes, that’s right they can hold down jobs too – and a very busy day it is. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. I liked that Scalzi presented the locked in community as being diverse, with some (those that experienced most of their lives in the physical world) preferring to interact with the world with threeps while those who suffered from it at a much younger age preferring to mostly interact online. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated. Chris' hard bitten, hard drinking female partner Leslie Vann may seem a bit of a cliche but has an interesting past as an Integrator and is smart and intuitive and generally gets what she wants.

This way the fast-talking, smart plotting and superb banter can have their full effect on the reader. It is like a cup of coffee and a sports drink in the morning, like the fresh air after being stuck indoors for a week, but also as a surprise math quiz right before break time. I thought it would be about a pandemic, but it's more about what might happen after a pandemic (one with very specific cause and effect, so kudos to the author for originating those ideas as well). In this near-future setting, the world has survived a virulent flu that has swept across the globe and devastated much of humanity. But this gets better because they can swap robots like we can exchange hire cars and in this way can leap about the globe with some ease and at rapid pace.I do still feel, however, that the usage of the "he said" and "she said" tags, is a little excessive and for that, I deducted half a star. The Navajo Nation has a central role in the story, and there is passing mention of the historical importance of Navajo Code Talkers in WW2: https://en.

But one way to avoid this mass genocide of the human race is to build robots that we can actually download ourselves into. Known as Haden's Syndrome, governments spend huge sums of money developing robot like bodies which can be operated by the person's brain waves while their body remains safe and cared for. The level of realistic detail here is crazy-I admire the imagination that can create such a world and then populate it with people that became real to me. And so the affected, those with the locked-in syndrome (now known as Hadens, after the former First Lady Mrs.

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Some Hadens don't want cures; they fear their unique and "emerging culture that interacts with but is independent of the physical world" will be expunged. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. But then it started to get much more complex as things happened and more and more characters entered the frame. Together, it all makes for an excellent murder mystery in a futuristic setting that should wide appeal to readers who don't normally read sf. This book took me too long to read, so important characters introduced in the beginning of the book were meaningless to me when I reached the solution.In fact, many of Scalzi’s books were my gateway to the genre; they were perfect for when I was first getting my feet wet and trying to read more sci-fi.

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