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A Highly Unlikely Scenario, Or A Neetsa Pizza Employee's Guide To Saving The World (2014)

by Rachel Cantor(Favorite Author)

2.88 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1612192645 (ISBN13: 9781612192642)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Melville House

review 1: Cantor's brainy, knockabout style is perfect for this roller coaster ride through a mildly dystopian near future where an oppressive government oversees a society divided into groups with competing philosophical allegiances and the fast food franchises they operate. There is some time traveling involved and you might want to brush up on Jewish mysticism before diving in. Or just dive right in. The novel is a quick dip. It can be laugh-out-loud funny and the characters make for good company.
review 2: A Highly Unlikely Scenario is about a pizza chain employee from a corporate dystopian future "saving the world" via time travel, numerology, and ancient Tibetan mysticism. Artificial intelligences, the Talmud, ideological wars between fast food factions, telepathy,... more and Marco Polo are also involved. It would be safe to call this a high concept story. That said, underneath the cornucopia of philosophical and historical allusions, there isn't a ton going on. This is basically just a simple boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-save-world narrative with a lot of esoteric trappings. It's odd enough to be worth the tiny time investment it demands, though it was too aggressively marketed and seems to have been, to some extent, a victim of its own hype. less

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