Head on : a novel of the near future
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
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Large print edition.
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433 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.
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Large Print
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Large print edition.
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English

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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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Scalzi, J. (2018). Head on: a novel of the near future (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scalzi, John, 1969-. 2018. Head On: A Novel of the Near Future. Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Scalzi, John, 1969-. Head On: A Novel of the Near Future Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Scalzi, John. Head On: A Novel of the Near Future Large print edition., Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018.

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