num_pages: 335
description: John Scalzi returns with Head On the standalone 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 opponents 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 Hadens 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 truthand 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.
language: English
title: Head On
publisher: Tor Books