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The Spiders of Allah
Travels of an Unbeliever on the Front Lines of Holy War
“Required reading” Time Out
“A first-class war memoir” Time
“Hunter S. Thompson meets Christopher Hitchens” Mother Jones
A Mother Jones Book of the Year and Booklist Editors’ Choice, The Spiders of Allah is an atheist’s romp through the front lines of holy war, from the killing fields of post-Saddam Iraq to the Zionist settlements of the West Bank and Hamas’ martyrdom of Mickey Mouse.
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“The writing is slick, the characters are vibrant . . . a perfect depiction of a group of scientists doing cutting edge research with zero concern for ethics or consequences” SFBook.com
Recreational suicide bombings and revelers in fancy dress throwing themselves from the top of the Empire State Building: when scientists break the final frontier of Death and find a way for the soul to live forever, humanity leaves Earth with a bang, bound for a man-made paradise. On the Orbiters, supercomputers riding beyond the edge of Earth's atmosphere, these Eternals live out their wildest dreams or build fantastic idylls, free at last from the tyranny of Evolution.
But back on Earth, the man known to history simply as the Missing Link — the product of a brutal but successful experiment to capture a human mind and synthesize it into ultra-human form — is dragged back into the turbulent currents of the history he has tried so hard to forget. Something is rotten in paradise, and Evolution is not quite done with humanity yet.