145 1a8eb376-c614-443f-bb27-99fc1625e997 Head On John Scalzi calibre (4.17.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 <p><b>"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty&#8212;most of them in someone else's body." &#8212;<i>USA Today</i></b></p><p>John Scalzi returns with <i>Head On, </i>the standalone follow-up to the <i>New York Times </i>bestselling and critically acclaimed <i>Lock In</i>. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, <i>Head On </i>brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.</p><p>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... Tom Doherty Associates eng