his is a story about American terrorists, anarchists, and survivalists, laced with demented conspiracy-theorist viewpoints. The central character, who is God, or thinks he is -considers everyone else a figment of his imagination. He and and his conspiracy-theorist friends are intelligent, pleasant characters, despite their casual violence and off-the-wall beliefs. Likeable people can be heartless killers, if they think their goals are just, and if they convince themselves that bystanders are mere drones of the Alien Masters. The defining plot point is the collapse of the Empire State Building, ultimately blamed on the central character, who also blames himself, since if he is God then he is, after all, responsible for everything.