Head On

Resumen del libro

John Scalzi returns with Head On, a 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.

Biografía del autor

John Scalzi nació en California y actualmente reside en Ohio. Es un prolífico columnista y escritor de ensayos. Su saga de aventuras espaciales iniciada con La vieja guardia se ha convertido en un rotundo éxito de público y crítica, y ha obtenido varias nominaciones a los premios Hugo. También ha publicado las novelas El agente de las estrellas y El sueño del androide, y los ensayos The Rough Guide to the Universe y The Book of the Dumb. Puedes encontrar más información sobre el autor en su blog, The Whatever, uno de los más visitados de la red.