Adam Roberts New Model Army Taal: Engels

Adam Roberts New Model Army

Taal: Engels
Bindwijze: Paperback
Druk: 1
Verschijningsdatum: 2010
Afmetingen: 23,4 x 15,3 x 2,2 cm
Aantal pagina's: 281 pagina's
Auteur: Adam Roberts
Uitgever: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 978-0-575-08361-5
NP: 27,99euro
Richtprijs 15,00euro
Verzendkosten vanaf 4,95euro

From a literary master of SF comes a savage satire on our capacity for war and a celebration of our need for love
A giant has brought war to the fields and towns of England's heartland. When the British army brings in air support and deploys heavy weapons he simply melts away, only to form again somewhere else and deliver another devastating blow. He is called Pantegrel, and he is a New Model Armya 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 he will choose to do. He has chosen the joy of the fight, and his fury is truly democratiche is me and you. This is a terrifying vision of a near future war as new technologies allow the world's first truly democratic army to 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 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 the literary significance that is its due.