John Scalzi returns with Head On, the stand-alone follow-up to the New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed Lock In. 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. The second book in the futuristic sci-fi police procedural series by John Scalzi, Head On, builds on the thematic foundations laid out in the earlier book (Lock In) by introducing professional sports into the post Haden's syndrome world where sufferers are locked in to their bodies but are able to live a mobile and semi-normal life by using humanoid robotics technologies called threeps to get around; this all made 4/5. 11 rows · John Scalzi returns with Head On, the stand-alone follow-up to the New York Times best-selling /5().
Head On is a science fiction police procedural novel by American writer John bltadwin.ru book was published by Tor Books on Ap. Audible has released two audiobook editions, each with a different narrator, Amber Benson and Wil bltadwin.ru is a standalone sequel to Lock In.. Plot summary. After the events of Lock In, the immobile victims of Haden's Syndrome continue to use robotic. John Scalzi (full name John Michael Scalzi II) was born in , in Fairfield, California as one of three children to a single mother. He is part Italian through his grandfather who emigrated to the US from Italy when he was a child. John Scalzi grew up in several Los Angeles cities such as Covina, Glendora, Azusa, and San Dimas. Head On, by 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.
Written By: John Scalzi Published by: Tor Books Pages: Reviewed by: Shannon Allen. Head On is an interesting take on the possibilities of our own relationship with not only our human connectivity by also our cyber one. The story starts off with a news report detailing the death of sports star Duane Chapman. John Scalzi. John Scalzi's Head On, is 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. To some left with nothing, winning becomes everything. John Scalzi returns with Head On, the stand-alone follow-up to the New York Times best-selling.
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