Escape from La-La Land

Escape from La-La Land

Jason O’Neil

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Año de edición:
2022
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
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9781665555357
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In this novel, two young adults have graduated from college, are out of work and exist in their parent’s basements. Welfare checks from a growing Socialist government have the potential of turning them into permanent wards of the state. As a result of monthly checks, they are not too eager to leave the comfort of the home with all of the videogames in their La-La Land.A father, Murray Hill, was raised to work hard within the free-enterprise democracy known as America. He buys a tiny house and parks it in his backyard as a new residence for his daughter. It comes complete with a Media Lab for use in job searches. The search convinces Toni and her boyfriend to get cyber science certificates to make themselves more employable.They interview with IBM and become project scientists with top secret clearances for their first assignment at the submarine base in Kingsbay, Georgia. The tiny house rolls south as the couple’s life really begins.At the same time, China has developed at huge cyber campus at the former US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Here, legions of Chinese cyber students trained in America develop a broadcast signal to bring down America’s computers and communications systems on the East Coast in order to complete their takeover of land of the Bald Eagle.Toni and Cory lead two cyber teams which successfully develops and deploys Operation Fog Horn which neutralizes a Chinese armada of ships broadcasting the control signals.The success of this operation allows the Cyber Boss, Admiral Wright, to orchestrate a successful coup removing the Socialist government. The couple then helps lead a series of actions to dramatically reduce the size of the government in order to create a federal structure in concert with the Constitution.The novel ends with the couple reflecting upon the role of the tiny house in their escape from La-La Land to help America once again become a beacon of freedom.

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