Head On

A Novel of the Near Future

John Scalzi

Science Fiction

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"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty—most of them in someone else's body." —USA Today

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 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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Über John Scalzi

John Scalzi, Jahrgang 1969, wuchs in Kalifornien auf. Nach dem College arbeitete er zunächst als Filmkritiker und später als Redakteur des Internet-Magazins America Online. Bereits sein Debütroman Krieg der Klone war so erfolgreich, dass John Scalzi sich von da an hauptberuflich dem Schreiben seiner Science-Fiction-Romane widmete. Nebenbei unterhält er schon seit Jahren seinen vielbesuchten Blog The Whatever. Mit seiner Frau und seiner Tochter lebt der Autor in Ohio.


Verlag:

Tor Books

Veröffentlicht:

2018

Druckseiten:

ca. 242

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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