The Body Scout, Lincoln Michel
The Body Scout, Lincoln Michel
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The Body Scout
A Novel

Author: Lincoln Michel

Narrator: Greg Chun

Unabridged: 9 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 09/21/2021

Synopsis

In this “timeless and original” sci-fi thriller (New York Times), a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by body modification, perfect for readers of William Gibson and Max Barry.In the future you can have any body you want—as long as you can afford it.But in a New York ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, Kobo is barely scraping by. He scouts the latest in gene-edited talent for Big Pharma-owned baseball teams, but his own cybernetics are a decade out of date and twin sister loan sharks are banging down his door. Things couldn't get much worse.Then his brother—Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz—is murdered at home plate.Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into a world of genetically modified CEOs, philosophical Neanderthals, and back-alley body modification, only to quickly find he's in a game far bigger and more corrupt than he imagined. To keep himself together while the world is falling apart, he'll have to navigate a time where both body and soul are sold to the highest bidder.Diamond-sharp and savagely wry, The Body Scout is a timely science fiction thriller debut set in an all-too-possible future.A New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021"I devoured it." —Jonathan Lethem"Completely weird and still completely real. Delightful—I couldn't put it down."—Shea Serrano

About Lincoln Michel

Lincoln Michel’s previous books are the story collection Upright Beasts and the novel The Body Scout, which was named one of the 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2021 by The New York Times and one of the 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time by Esquire. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Lightspeed, Granta, The New York Times, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He runs the popular literary newsletter Counter Craft and coedited the anthologies Tiny Crimes and Tiny Nightmares. He was born in Virginia and lives in Brooklyn. He can be found online at LincolnMichel.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxane on July 16, 2021

Michel is a great writer and thinker and I loved the premise of this novel. Very gritty. Lots of worldbuilding, maybe too much, but still it’s clear the author knows this world and has thought it through. Very strong characters—the central people were the best part of the novel. I wanted more of a s......more

Goodreads review by Chris on August 24, 2021

The Body Scout is a scifi/noir tale following Kobo,who is a former baseball player turned scout investigating the murder of his best friend JJ Sunz, who dies suddenly in the middle of a game. This book was a very fun read with great world building and suspense. This to me is more plot driven, but th......more

Goodreads review by Bandit on June 19, 2021

I was craving a science fiction novel to balance my reading diet. This one seemed intriguing, but there was…baseball. Crap. Even for someone like me who doesn’t care for competitive sports, baseball is still at the bottom of every list. Just a weird, weird, inexplicably popular game. So much so that......more

Goodreads review by Alan on June 13, 2022

"Nothing alive can be fully controlled." —p.207Yeah, okay. The Body Scout, the debut novel from Lincoln Michel, is a perfectly serviceable corporate dystopia—I liked it, all right—but I'm not sure there much that's new here. Science fiction's been playing with this sort of trope since at least the 19......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on September 11, 2021

3.5 stars The Body Scout is an interesting novel, and its synopsis is what made me request it on NetGalley. I love any kind of science fiction thriller with a dystopian future and corporate-owned identities. Watching people fight back against the corporation will forever be one of the classic parts o......more

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