Invention Is a Mother
by Rob Brownell
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Pub Date Nov 17 2022 | Archive Date Nov 22 2022
Syllaballistics Publishing | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
RESPONSIBILITY IS OVERRATED
A recently graduated and happily unemployed engineer, Shaughnessy shirks responsibility whenever possible. He coasts through life, sidestepping every opportunity to follow in his father Walton’s footsteps, until Walton begins to suspect that he has MFD (mysterious fatal disease).
The family coerces Shaughnessy to impersonate his father as a senior engineer at Critical Think Inc. There, he is immediately entangled in the development of an irrational consumer product.
Pressured to innovate in the face of absurd challenges and fantastical demands, Shaughnessy teeters on the edge between breakthrough and breakdown.
In a near future where you are what you wear, can an idling young engineer successfully navigate corporate startup culture, accept his family’s medical crisis, and harness his full creative potential?
Fans of THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY and GOOD OMENS will enjoy laugh-out-loud collisions with the limits of reason in INVENTION IS A MOTHER.
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
“Full of colorful sci-fi abstractions, Invention Is a Mother is witty, absurd, playful, imaginative, cynical, sad, compelling, and darkly hilarious all in one.”
—Dan Marshall, author of Home Is Burning
“A sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. I loved it!”
—Will Leitch, author of How Lucky
“The new Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
—Bill Burnett, co-author of Designing Your Life
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798985926408 |
| PRICE | $14.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 843382
Wacky, near future sci-fi, that’s a darkly comic take on our technology obsessed culture. We’re not talking amazing feats of engineering, no no, we enter a world obsessed with the next hot gadget. So, not so different from our reality. It took me a bit to get into this book, but once I understood where the author was coming from I couldn’t put it down. I could have used some of the gadgets myself in our new videoconferencing world. You’ll LOL at the stingingly accurate cast of characters and maybe cry a little too as you join Shaugnessy’s reluctant journey into adulthood. As the author warns, it contains puns! crude humour! irreverence! I did cringe a few times so I didn’t give it a full 5 stars. Highly recommend
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