Binding: Paperback
Description: " As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy - cop charm and suspects aplenty most of them in someone else's body." US a 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.
Title: Head On A Novel Of The Near Future
Author(s): Scalzi John
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9780765388933
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/26/2019
Series: The Lock In Series