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    Cover of Head On

    Head On

    John Scalzi · 2018

    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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    2recommend
    2mentions
    2people
    2018–2022years
    100% recommend

    Mentions per year

    20182019202020212022

    What Hacker News says

    1. sushisourceAug 2022
      Lock In and the sequel Head On are both fun reads with his same humorous style that you'll probably read in two or three sittings
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    2. djtaliaDec 2018
      Lock In And Head On by John Scalzi. The only book of his I've enjoyed more is Red Shirts.
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