
Adam Roberts
Release Date: 09 Aug 2007
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780575075887
ISBN-10: 0575075880
LAND OF THE HEADLESS is set in a far future where mankind has taken his religious dogma and the divisions that result from it out into space.On a planet where society is shaped by a strict adherence 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.
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