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Mone, Gregory.
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Santa Claus -- Humor.
Elves -- Humor.
Christmas -- Humor.
Technology -- Humor.
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Mone, Gregory.
Santa Claus -- Humor.
Elves -- Humor.
Christmas -- Humor.
Technology -- Humor.
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The
truth
about
Santa
:
wormholes
,
robots
, and
what
really
happens
on
Christmas
Eve
/ Gregory Mone.
by
Mone, Gregory.
Bloomsbury, c2009.
Call #:
394.2663 M742t
Subjects
Santa
Claus -- Humor.
Elves -- Humor.
Christmas
-- Humor.
Technology -- Humor.
ISBN:
9781596916180
1596916184
Alternate title:
Santa
:
wormholes
,
robots
, and
what
really
happens
on
Christmas
Eve
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
viii, 144 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"A dynamically illustrated, futuristic case for the scientific possibility that
Santa
Claus
really
exists.
Santa
Claus: fat, jolly, omniscient, swift. Lives in a nice home in the Arctic, with the missus and a pack of elves. Well, forget
what
you know.
Santa
Claus is from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, as it turns out, and he's not as fat as he used to be. Here's something else you didn't know: he's been dabbling in some futuristic technology, and has found myriad ways to make his job easier. Who's been naughty and nice? Simple: implant listening devices into your ornaments. How can he make it to every house
Christmas
Eve
? That's nothing a little cloning and some
wormholes
can't solve. And he has plenty of other tactics: quantum entanglement, organ replacement, drug-induced hibernation and unmanned aerial vehicles. The author uses science and technology, drawing on the work of accomplished scientists and researchers, to give us a whole new portrait of this remarkable man. The author especially wants you to know that this book makes an outstanding, economical
Christmas
gift for just
about
anyone. Gregory Mone lives in Massachusetts. He plans to write
about
Irish mythology and the evolution of the universe. Those will probably be two different projects, but it would be kind of funny to combine them"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
American wit and humor.
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