Head on: A Novel of the Near Future
- Format: Paperback
- Språk: Engelsk
- Sjangere: Science-Fiction, Thriller
- Slippdato: 26. mar. 2019
- Forlag: Tor Books
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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,...
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.
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.
SKU
9780765388933
Sjangere:
Science-Fiction
Thriller
SKU | 9780765388933 |
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Vekt (Kg) : | 0.227000 |
Antall Sider | 336 |
Utgave | Reissue |
Språk | Engelsk |
Leverandørstatus | Tilgjengelig |
Subsjanger: | Action og Eventyr, Cyberpunk, Hard Science-Fiction, Krim |
Volum | 2 |
Serie | Lock in |
Sjanger | Science-Fiction, Thriller |
Format | Paperback |
Utgiver | Tor Books |
Opprinnelsesland : | USA |
Forfattere | John Scalzi |
Avansert Format | Paperback: A-Format (S) |
Aldersgruppe | Voksen |
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