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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Would that be Early Riser by Jasper Fforde? If not, I'm very curious what the book was.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s Lock-In by John Scalzi. After a weird flu, a large portion of the population are left paraplegic and can only interact with the world by remotely controlling humanoid robots. It’s still fairly early on in the tech, so most folks are walking around in generic of the shelf units that are only a few generations removed from the Boston Dynamics or Atlas robots.

    It was a really weird novel to be reading during the first week of Covid shutdowns.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Huh, thank you for the summary! What a strange (but fascinating) premise. Definitely a weird book to have during the first week of COVID shutdowns... All the zombie apocalypse stories also hit rather differently when read during COVID lockdown 😅

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    It’s probably worth mentioning that the book’s a police procedural / crime novel. 👍 It takes place about 25 years after the fictional pandemic. The story starts off with a robot-piloting protagonist’s first day on the job as part of the FBI’s robot-crimes division. It almost won a Hugo and is worth taking a look at if the premise sounds interesting.

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