{"product_id":"head-on-a-novel-of-the-near-future-paperback","title":"Head on: A Novel of the Near Future - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Scalzi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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--most of them in someone else's body.\" --\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Scalzi returns with \u003ci\u003eHead On, \u003c\/i\u003ethe standalone follow-up to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling and critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eLock In\u003c\/i\u003e. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, \u003ci\u003eHead On \u003c\/i\u003ebrings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHilketa 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil a star athlete drops dead on the playing field. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIs 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOHN SCALZI is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. His massively successful debut \u003ci\u003eOld Man's War\u003c\/i\u003e won him science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers include \u003ci\u003eThe Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRedshirts;\u003c\/i\u003e which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog, Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. Scalzi also serves as critic-at-large for \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.76 x 8.25 x 5.38 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45711356395717,"sku":"9781250385529","price":28.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/IeE33J5dyD9781250385529.webp?v=1782959016","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/head-on-a-novel-of-the-near-future-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}