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From the literary master of SF comes a savage satire on our capability for war and a party of our need for loveA giant has introduced war to the fields and cities of Englandis heartland. When the English army brings in oxygen service and deploys large guns he basically burns up, only to create again elsewhere and provide another damaging setback. He's named Pantegrel, and he's a Brand New Design Army—a giant whose ideas flow-through numerous instant contacts, whose intellect originates from the web and real time camera upgrades, whose brain is composed of a large number of heads, each determining what he'll decide to do. He's selected the pleasure of the battle, and his fury is truly democratic—he is me and you. This is a terrifying perspective of the not too distant future war as new systems permit the world's first truly democratic military to wrest control in the forces that be. Getting the eagerness for energy and improvements in contemporary conversation in the base upwards, Adam Roberts has created at the same time a thrilling war book and a philosophical study of democracy and war.