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RealityChik

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13. Ultra Bowl by IJ Weinstock

Reply to Zing Zing Zingbah (Original post)

Sun Feb 26, 2017, 05:54 PM

Feb 2017

Not directly related to the Trump situation--more about our dependence on technology and how robotics could?/might? threaten our future.

A unique dystopian adventure about a fictitious Super Bowl NFL team somehow transported to the future to win against a team of robots. I haven't read it yet, but seems quirky enough to stoke my curiosity, and I'm not even a football fan.

Found it on Amazon in Young Adult Fiction. Available for Kindle and in paperback.

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Recommendations for books relevant to our current situation [View all] Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 OP

Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' seems approprate. nt COLGATE4 Feb 2017 #1

The Road Johnny2X2X Feb 2017 #2

This is a great trilogy for someone his age, not exactly what you are asking for Tanuki Feb 2017 #3

I just finished Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #4

Men Without Work: America's Invisible Crisis by Nicholas Eberstadt theophilus Feb 2017 #5

If he was a little older I'd recommend 1984. briv1016 Feb 2017 #6

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood yardwork Feb 2017 #7

+1 0rganism Feb 2017 #18

Robert Cormier's "The Chocolate Wars" for a fictional microcosm KingCharlemagne Feb 2017 #8

I think "1984" would be OK for a 9th grader - AND ... 66 dmhlt Feb 2017 #9

We the People: A Call to Take Back America CrispyQ Feb 2017 #10

Grapes of Wrath dixiegrrrrl Feb 2017 #11

George Orwell's Animal Farm. RealityChik Feb 2017 #12

Ultra Bowl by IJ Weinstock RealityChik Feb 2017 #13

Animal Farm Drahthaardogs Feb 2017 #14

Thanks for all the recommendations Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 #15

Feel free to post more if you have more Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 #16

"March" - three book series of graphic novels based on Rep. John Lewis csziggy Feb 2017 #17

Someone else mentioned that series too. Zing Zing Zingbah Feb 2017 #21

I didn't realize it was for school csziggy Feb 2017 #22

Confessions of an Economic Hitman Naomi Klein nt EarthFirst Feb 2017 #19

The Man in the High Castle 0rganism Feb 2017 #20

For a book on Western values, science and ethics, The Once and Future King by T.H.White. ancianita Feb 2017 #23