Head on
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Tor, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Scalzi, J
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Fiction Scalzi, J
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
Fiction Scalzi, J
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Fiction Scalzi, J
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Published
New York : Tor, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Description
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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