The Flinkwater Factor by Pete Hautman, 249 pages
This was a bizarre but fun book. There are what seems to be
several different stories in this book that all come together in the end.
Flinkwater is a place where several geniuses live. They work for ACPOD,
which creates robots. Several people become comatose, apparently from
watching the same computer program, a talking dog appears in town and Ginger,
the main character, finds out more about the Sasquatch in town than she thought
possible. Ginger, along with the boy she wants to marry, Billy, and
another friend, Myke, set out to solve the problems in Flinkwater before
Homeland Security tries to take them in as terrorists. His book is
actually pretty funny and has some fun real science and also some fake
science. One of the great things about it is that at the end Hautman
talks about what is real, potentially real soon, and fake. This is a good
one for kids who like realistic science fiction.
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