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Tuskers (Paperback)
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Tuskers (Paperback)
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TUSKERS takes place on the day of a football game between the
University of Nebraska and the University of Oklahoma in the year
2090. Nebraska has not lost a game in ten years, but must win this
last one to complete the perfect Winning Decade. Global warming has
turned the American central plains into a desert. A brilliant
chemical engineer has devised a way to make petroleum products from
slime corn, a desert-loving perennial invented by molecular
biologists. As a result of his patents, this engineer owns a
company named Anti-Environmental Products, Inc. (AEPI), whose raw
material-corn slime-is the crude oil of the late 21st Century.
Nebraska is now the petroleum source for much of the world, and
thus the engineer's wealth. But this guy hates Nebraska and will
use everything in his power to make the Tuskers lose The molecular
biologists also have succeeded in resurrecting woolly mammoths from
DNA in carcasses appearing in the rapidly-melting polar ice cap.
The first, and largest, of these mammoths is Archie, the University
of Nebraska mascot, and the team is now known as the "Tuskers"
instead of the "Cornhuskers" as earlier in the century. TUSKERS not
only is science fiction, it also is satire, exploring the American
obsession with football as a national sport as the world
experiences global climate change, political turmoil, and
accelerating technological advance. In the end, the book is not so
much about sport as it is about our preoccupation with sport as a
displacement behavior in a world that is changing so rapidly we
cannot control it.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
July 2010 |
First published: |
July 2010 |
Authors: |
John Janovy Jr
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
236 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4536-3737-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
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LSN: |
1-4536-3737-0 |
Barcode: |
9781453637371 |
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