Head on.
Head on.
By
:
Scalzi, John, 1969-
Publication Date
:
2018
Subject Term
:
Virus diseases -- Fiction.
Virtual reality -- Fiction.
Epidemics -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Science fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Horror fiction.
Dystopias.
Summary
:
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780765388919
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Conception Bay South (ACS) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC SCA | Checked In |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC SCA | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | ADULT FIC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction - Basement | FIC SCA | Checked In |