02593cam a2200553 i 4500 20679870 O 20220412093145.0 180924t20182018nyu e 000 1 eng d 2018288565 9780765388919 (hardcover) 076538891X (hardcover) 9780765388926 (ebook) (OCoLC)on1030585986 SFSPUL eng PUL rda PUL lccopycat n-us--- PS 3619 .C256H43 2018 813/.6 23 Scalzi, John, 1969- author. Head on / John Scalzi. First edition. 335 pages ; 22 cm "A Tom Doherty Associates book." 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. Virus diseases Fiction. Epidemics Fiction. Virtual reality Fiction. FICTION Science Fiction Action & Adventure. bisacsh FICTION Thrillers Crime. bisacsh FICTION Science Fiction Cyberpunk. bisacsh Epidemics. fast Virtual reality. fast Virus diseases. fast Fiction. fast Psychological fiction. fast Science fiction. fast Sports fiction. fast Thrillers (Fiction) fast Horror fiction. gsafd Science fiction. gsafd Sports fiction. lcgft Science fiction. lcgft Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft Psychological fiction. lcgft 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 33609 33609 0 0 lcc 0 0 FIC PUEA PUEA FIC 2022-04-12 DON 1000.00 2022-15670 1 1 PS 3619 .C256H43 2018 2022-0892 2025-04-08 06:11:55 2025-02-24 2022-04-12 BK