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Land Of The Headless Adam Roberts

Land Of The Headless By Adam Roberts

Land Of The Headless by Adam Roberts


$14.99
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Summary

The extraordinary new novel from 'the king of high concept SF' (Guardian): a literary SF fable of religious intolerance, love and war.

Land Of The Headless Summary

Land Of The Headless by Adam Roberts

THE LAND OF THE HEADLESS is set in a far future where mankind has taken his religious dogma and the divsions that result from it out into space. On a planet where society is shaped by a strict adherance to the word of God as laid out in the Old Testament and Quran a poet is accused of the rape of a woman. Found guilty he must face the punishment laid down in the Good Book; beheading. Beheaded, he is fitted with a neck valve, ordinator and basic sensory equipment and sent out into the world. But he bears a terrible and very visible stigma. the only way he can make a living is to join the army and serve in the war against the neighbouring planet. And plan his revenge against the man he believes is really guilty. LAND OF THE HEADLESS is a searing satire of religious fundamentalism, a novel of love and war and a study of self-delusion. It is an elegantly written, thought-provoking and unique SF novel.

About Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts is 41 and Professor of 19th century Literature at London University. His first novel, Salt, was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He has also published a number of academic works on both 19th century poetry and SF, including the Palgrave Critical History of SF.

Additional information

GOR001459436
9780575082175
0575082178
Land Of The Headless by Adam Roberts
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Orion Publishing Co
2007-01-01
288
N/A
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