Book Series Guide

John Scalzi · novel-series

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A near-future science-fiction mystery series involving Haden's syndrome, neural interfaces, and investigators who operate through robotic bodies.

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    Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome

    Book 0 · novella · 2014 Optional

    In the near future--and sooner than you think--a new virus will sweep the globe. At first it will look like the flu, but then we will discover there is something else about it...something we weren't expecting. It will change society…

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    Lock In

    Book 1 · novel · 2014

    Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the…

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    Head On

    Book 2 · novel · 2018

    John Scalzi's Head On, is a chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural. Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports. To some left with nothing,…