Sunnyside - Rob Dircks

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Biographie:
Rob Dircks is the #1 Audible bestselling author of You're Going to Mars!, the Where the Hell is Tesla? trilogy, The Wrong Unit, and more (including the anti-self-help book Unleash the Sloth!). He narrates most of his own work, garnering praise from Audible for his work and performances in their All-Time Favorites list, alongside some of his heroes: Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Peter Clines, Philip K. Dick, Margaret Atwood, and Nick Harkaway. He's also got a drawerful of ideas and half-finished stories, some of which appear on his original audio sci-fi short story podcast, Listen To The Signal, which he also narrates.A member of SFWA (Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America), Rob is a big fan of classic science fiction, and loves the absurdity and strange draw of science-fiction-centric conspiracy theories like UFOs, Tesla's secret notebooks, supernatural phenomena, and classified tech.When not writing, Rob's helping other authors publish their own work with Goldfinch Publishing, writing and designing for the award-winning ad agency he owns with his brother (aptly titled Dircks Associates), and generally doing what he calls sampling video production, audio production, light programming, photography, guitar, reading, cooking. He lives in New York with his wife and two kids....

Sommaire:
GET OFF MY LAWN.

They just stood there. In the dark. On his grass. Three punks. They were always there, roaming the streets, kicking over trash cans, spray painting the train underpass, throwing eggs on Halloween, a stain on his otherwise bucolic Ridgewood, New Jersey neighborhood. Once they left a bag of dog crap on his front porch and set it on fire. He almost stepped in it. But for some reason this new thing, the just standing there, pissed him off even more. Like they owned his lawn. Pot-smoking punks.

So begins the journey of Theo Hoover, disgruntled history repairman, who accidentally becomes Grand Oversee -- humanity's supreme leader -- managing the terraforming of Sunnyside, mankind's potential new home planet. But people are dying. And aliens are coming. And his brother is missing. And Kate Kingston of all people has been assigned his Chief of Staff. Oh, and that chaos is only the beginning, as the fate of Sunnyside - and humanity - comes to rest in Theo's shaky hands.

With Sunnyside, Rob Dircks (#1 Audible Bestselling author of You're Going to Mars! and Where the Hell is Tesla?) has crafted a science fiction story with a dry, constant thread of humor -- but also a brotherhood story, a friendship story, a love story, a story about loss and letting go, and a story about our absurdities and whether we can overcome them -- or if we even should. The Black List describes it as a distant future filled with irony, madcap characters, spaceships, a few bureaucratic conspiracies and an utterly unique voice with a pace and energy that moves at warp-speed.

And the story is timely: it explores a world where bureaucracy is so tangled it gives rats' nests a bad name, and corruption is rampant. BUT... it offers much needed hope (and a well-deserved escape) in our interesting times. Enjoy the read!