Head On
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    Apr-2018 (Hardcover)
    Mar-2019 (Paperback)
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    Science Fiction
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    336
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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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    •  
    • Mar-2019
    • Daw
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0765388936
    • ISBN13: 9780765388933
    •  
    • Apr-2018
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1509835105
    • ISBN13: 9781509835102
    • First Edition
    • Apr-2018
    • Tor
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 076538891X
    • ISBN13: 9780765388919
    •  
    • 2018
    • Daw
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 125018892X
    • ISBN13: 9781250188922
    •  
    • Apr-2018
    • Tor
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1509835121
    • ISBN13: 9781509835126
    •  
    • Apr-2018
    • Daw
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0765388928
    • ISBN13: 9780765388926
    •  
    • Jul-2018
    • Brilliance Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1978642709
    • ISBN13: 9781978642706
    •  
    • Oct-2018
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1721349111
    • ISBN13: 9781721349111
    •  
    • Dec-2018
    • Brilliance Audio
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1721372970
    • ISBN13: 9781721372973
    •  
    • Jul-2018
    • Thorndike Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1432853236
    • ISBN13: 9781432853235
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



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