missingvolume | #18 Lockstep by Karl Schroeder (Reply)

A young boy wakes up from cold sleep to find that fourteen thousand years have passed and somehow his family is the most important family in the universe. Lockstep works with worlds sleeping away the years while robots gather resources and then they wake for a while to trade and enjoy life and then go back to their hibernation mode. But not everyone one is happy in this universe and with the sudden appearance of Toby, the missing eldest child of the family everyone wants something from him. A good coming of age story but the ending seemed a bit too pat for my personal taste but others may like it. This is geared a bit more for the YA crowd but it certainly doesn't talk down to the reader.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through NetGalley