![]() It's better to be a rich Haden, who can inhabit a fine threep, than an ordinary Haden lurching around in the threep equivalent of a Yugo. ![]() When they die, the consciousness dies, too. This isn't magic those locked-in fleshly bodies must be cared for. ![]() The technical term for it is 'polyproprioception.' Humans, who generally have only one body to deal with, are naturally designed for it. "It's much more noticeable when your body and your threep are in the same room at the same time. "I felt that sensation unique to Hadens, the vertigo that comes from perceptually being in two places at once," viewpoint character Chris Shane tells us. Through neural surgery, however, these locked-in victims of Haden syndrome can project their consciousness into threeps - android-type bodies - and move and work in the public world. "Lock In" imagines a future world where a viral plague has left five million people locked in their bodies, unable to move or respond to stimuli. ![]() In an uncanny coincidence, John Scalzi's sci-fi novel "Lock In" arrives just when many people are thinking about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease, thanks to ice-bucket challenges. ![]()
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