Head on - Signed / Autographed Copy - Hardcover

John Scalzi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 125018892X ISBN 13: 9781250188922

Publisher: Tor Books, 2018

Synopsis

From one of the most popular authors in modern SF, the sequel to his New York Times bestselling near-future thriller Lock In John Scalzi returns with Head On, the stand-alone 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.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 125018892X
• ISBN 13: 9781250188922
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1