Head On (Lock In, #2)

by John Scalzi

At the minimum, if NASCAR drivers can be considered athletes, so too can Hilketa players.

“Interesting, though.” “What is?” “A skybox full of non-Hadens, here for a game played by Hadens, and the first thing that dude does when he sees a threep is hand over his drink glass.”

In doing so, it makes the players something other than fully human. And that matters too, for Hadens and everyone who cares about them. Basically, Hilketa is both representation and alienation for Hadens. So: It’s complicated.

That means he was the defensive player whose head was selected as the ball.” “You’re mansplaining Hilketa to me now,” Vann said. Tony held up a hand, imploringly. “Look, not everyone follows the game.” “I don’t,” Diaz volunteered. Tony motioned at Diaz, as if to say, See.