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Head on: A Novel of the Near Future
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Series: Lock in, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerScience Fiction
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ISBN10: 1250385520
ISBN13: 9781250385529
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Mar 26 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781250385529
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: Mar 26 2019
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty--most of them in someone else's body. --USA Today
John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports. Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are threeps, robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field. Is it an accident or murder? FBI agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth--and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.Also from
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