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by John Scalzi

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An edition of Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock in) (2018)

Head On

First edition.

by John Scalzi

★★★★ 4.1 (24 ratings)
19 Want to read
1 Currently reading
32 Have read

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.

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March 28, 2018

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Tor Books

Language

English

Pages

335

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1 Head On: A Novel of the near Future 2019, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom trade paperback in English 1250385520 9781250385529	zzzz Locate
2 Head On: A Novel of the Near Future (Lock in) Mar 26, 2019, Tor Science Fiction mass market paperback 0765388936 9780765388933	zzzz Locate
3 Head On 2018, Thorndike Press in English 1432853236 9781432853235	zzzz Locate
4 Head on - Signed / Autographed Copy May 07, 2018, Tor Books hardcover 125018892X 9781250188922	zzzz Locate
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