Head on / John Scalzi.
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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- ISBN: 9780765388933 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 327 pages ; 19 cm
- Edition: First mass market edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Tor, 2018
- Copyright: ©2018
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General Note: | "A novel of the near future"--Cover. "A Tom Doherty Associates book." |
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