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Head on / John Scalzi.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780765388919 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 335 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Tor, 2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A Tom Doherty Associates book." "A novel of the near future"--Jacket. |
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| Subject: | Virus diseases > Fiction. Epidemics > Fiction. Virtual reality > Fiction. Beheading > Fiction. Competition (Psychology) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Science fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | PB Scalz | 31681030005870 | PBK SCI FI | Checked out | 09/16/2025 |
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