![]() ![]() Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. ![]() 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. John Scalzi returns with Head On, the stand-alone follow-up to the New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Cannell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty - most of them in someone else's body." ( USA Today) ![]() "As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. ![]()
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