
The Dispatcher by John Scalzi
Ehhhhh. So conceptually, this sounded really interesting. This is a world where people don’t have to die. If you’re murdered, you get to come back in a place that feels comfortable and safe, reverted to a few hours before your death. Our protagonist is a Dispatcher, meaning that he’s on call for things like medical emergencies, tidily “dispatching” the patient so they don’t die from the procedure. I expected to learn more about this world, but honestly, this is more like… an episode of NCIS. Someone is missing, so a law official connects with another dispatcher to understand how the […]