Publisher Audible Studios
Length 7hrs 36mins
Format audiobooks
Narrator Wil Wheaton
Length 7hrs 36mins
Format audiobooks
Narrator Wil Wheaton
Published 2018
Series Lock In #2
My Copy I bought it
My Review
Series Lock In #2
My Copy I bought it
My Review
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 possible by technology which transposes the locked in persons brain waves into a threep or integrator via a neural network.
The professional sport of Hilketa is a threep only sport in which a team of combatants violently attack the other team with the goal being to decapitate the head of a member of the other team and score a goal with it. Whilst the book is heavily centered around this sport, it's not the single plot device, rather, the untimely death of one of the Hilketa stars in front of a live audience, closely followed by the apparent suicide of a senior office official drives the direction of the story.
This is where Agents Shane (a Hayden) and Vann (angry FBI agent) come in.
Head On follows a largely standard formula of investigation with the agents progressively expanding the list of suspects, uncovering corruption and cover-ups, and ultimately taking down the bad guy(s). The characters are extremely well written and the humorous anecdotes makes for an entertaining read (or listen as was the case for me).
My rating: 4/5 stars. I hope John Scalzi continues to write books set in this futuristic world as I need more Shane and Vann stories in my life.
The professional sport of Hilketa is a threep only sport in which a team of combatants violently attack the other team with the goal being to decapitate the head of a member of the other team and score a goal with it. Whilst the book is heavily centered around this sport, it's not the single plot device, rather, the untimely death of one of the Hilketa stars in front of a live audience, closely followed by the apparent suicide of a senior office official drives the direction of the story.
This is where Agents Shane (a Hayden) and Vann (angry FBI agent) come in.
Head On follows a largely standard formula of investigation with the agents progressively expanding the list of suspects, uncovering corruption and cover-ups, and ultimately taking down the bad guy(s). The characters are extremely well written and the humorous anecdotes makes for an entertaining read (or listen as was the case for me).
My rating: 4/5 stars. I hope John Scalzi continues to write books set in this futuristic world as I need more Shane and Vann stories in my life.
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