Head on
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Published:
New York : Tor, 2018.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780765388919, 076538891X, 9780765388919
Notes
General Note
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
General Note
"A novel of the near future"--Jacket.
Description
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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APA Citation (style guide)
Scalzi, J. (2018). Head on. First edition. Tor.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Scalzi, John, 1969-. 2018. Head On. Tor.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Scalzi, John, 1969-, Head On. Tor, 2018.
MLA Citation (style guide)Scalzi, John. Head On. First edition. Tor, 2018.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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