# Identify this Sci-Fi book for me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-sci-fi-book-for-me/310551 "2005-06-30T17:40:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-sci-fi-book-for-me/310551/1 "2005-06-30T17:40:27Z")
About ten years ago I read this sci-fi book and lately its been bugging me that I can’t remember what book it was. It was a murder mystery of sorts set in the future. Investigators have the technology to identify through dust and skin flakes left in carpets everyone who had been in a room ever. In this case the forensic evidence points to this one guy but it makes no sense. So they hire a guy who can enter one’s “mindscape” to investigate what happened. (The mindscape thing is a lot like that one movie with J. Lo called “The Cell”) I also seem to remember freeways were called “slaveways”. He investigates and finds out the guy was possessed or hijacked by something/someone like a mind-virus. My memory is a bit vague on this point. That’s about all I got. Anyone know what book this is? ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-sci-fi-book-for-me/310551/2 "2005-06-30T20:06:22Z")
[Queen of Angels](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0446361305/qid=1120162895/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-2188898-1486235) by Greg Bear. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-sci-fi-book-for-me/310551/3 "2005-06-30T20:35:11Z")
Thanks! I knew I could count on the Dope!