#18 Lockstep by Karl Schroeder

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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

Comments

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

That is a terrible cover for this book, though. It doesn't read 'YA' visually at all, and I think it looks like it's an entirely different genre than the actual story.

I love the cover art, but...just doesn't go with this story.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

No but then Tor doesn't do much YA except for repackaging older books as YA under another line name. But if they had the denners from the book "small fluffy creatures" it might have helped. The protagonist is supposed to be 17 years old but the cover looks a bit grim.