![]() ![]() ![]() But circumstances and a callous police chief conspire against him. Convinced of the guilt of one of the others, Cavala intends to kill the man, then claim he is himself the rapist - which will mean his death - in order to save Siuzan from the barbaric punishment. But when they reach the town, the men are arrested and told Siuzan has been raped by one of them en route, but since she refuses to name her assailant, she will herself be beheaded for adultery unless the guilty man confesses. Wanting to see his beloved again (she has avoided decapitation as Cavala claimed it was rape, casting her as an innocent victim not a guilty willing participant) he travels to her home town with two other headless men, together with Siuzan, a headed woman who is doing charity work for the headless, to whom Cavala is attracted because of her simple goodness. However, the decapitation isn't fatal since Jon Cavala's mind has been downloaded into an apparatus in his spine which now controls his headless body further devices allow him vision and hearing, and permit him to breathe and eat. The novel starts in very intriguing fashion, with the beheading of the first-person narrator for "adultery", an offence which includes consensual sex, a crime in a society governed by a holy book which is an amalgam of the Bible and Koran. Land of the Headless is SF, published 2007 by Orion/Gollancz. ![]()
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