Book Log 2018 #28: Head On by John Scalzi

Humans are infinitely adaptable in the face of change, as seen in this series where people who contract Hayden's Syndrome - which leaves people unable to use their bodies but keeps their minds intact - learn to interact with the world through robot-like machines (threeps). Not only do those affected adapt, but the wider world does as well, creating a variety of supports and social opportunities (as well as breeding some old-fashioned discrimination).

One of those adaptations is a sport where teams of threeps compete to remove the head of an opponent and carry it across a goal line, It's violent, popular, and generally harmless to the competitors as the damage is done to the machines. But when one of the athletes dies, it's up to FBI agent Chris Shane (himself a Hayden's sufferer) and his partner to figure out what happened. 

I like this series a lot, and appreciate the ways it makes you think about disability and difference while still keeping the story first.  I'm hopeful, and a little impatient, for more books in the series.