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A nightmarish vision of future war from a literary master of SF.
Adam Roberts' new novel is a terrifying vision of a near future war—a civil war that tears the UK apart as new technologies allow the worlds first truly democratic army to take on the British army and wrest control from the powers that be. Taking advances in modern communication and the new eagerness for power from the bottom upwards, Adam Roberts has produced a novel that is at once an exciting war novel and a philosophical examination of war and democracy. It shows an exciting and innovative literary voices working at the height of his powers and investing SF with literary significance that is its due. A giant has brought war to England's heartland. He stalks across the fields and towns to the west of London. The British army has tried to destroy him but each time has has beaten them. When they bring in air support and deploy heavy weapons he simply melts away, only to form again somewhere else and deliver another devastating blow. Pantegral is a New Model Army—a giant whose thoughts flow through countless wireless connections, whose intelligence comes from the internet and real-time camera updates, whose mind is made up of thousands of minds, each deciding what Pantegral will choose to do. And Pantegral has chosen the joy of the fight. His fury is truly democratic. Adam Roberts' stunning new novel is a savage satire on on our capacity for war and a celebration of our need for love. It confirms his status as one of the most exciting voices writing today."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Adam Roberts is a novelist whose titles include, Gradisil, Salt, Swiftly, and Yellow Blue Tibia. His work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award and selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection. He also writes parodies, including Doctor Whom: E.T. Shoots and Leaves, The Sellamillion, and The Va Dinci Cod.
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"The brilliantly detailed concept is balanced by terrific action scenes in the 'suburban catastrophe' style of H. G. Wells or J. G. Ballard." —Scotsman on Sunday
"Should have won the 2009 Booker Prize." —Kim Stanley Robinson, author, Red Mars, on Yellow Blue Tibia
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0575083611
- ISBN 13 9780575083615
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages282
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