Review: Great Excitement Builder- Must Read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 14, 2014
My sense is that Scalzi wrote Unlocked both to build enthusiasm (and market) for his to-be-released novel, Lock In, and to provide some back story for it.  He succeeds brilliantly in both.  Plus, you get the first chapter of the actual novel included, and everyone who has read his works knows John writes WONDERFUL first chapters.To be honest, the original description of the plot mostly creeped me out but once I got swept up in the action, all of that went away.  It will be fun to see if this turns into a police procedural or an up-to-date version of Childhood's End, or something else.  Meanwhile, you need to read this before tackling the novel due August 14th.  If you don't want to spend the money, it's free on Tor.com but you lose out on Chapter 1 of Lock In.