Ultra Bowl - Weinstock, I. J.
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An NFL team rescues the future from the tyranny of technology. ULTRA BOWL is an adventure fable about the dangers of our Digital Age and the dystopian future toward which we may be heading. Flying home from the Super Bowl, the New York Knights are "time-napped"-transported 100 years into the future, where the global balance-of-power is decided in a football game played by robots. The Knights have been "drafted" to play for the United States in the Ultra Bowl, unaware that they are expendable pawns in a brilliant technocrat's diabolical plot to rule the world. Despite the insurmountable odds,…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
An NFL team rescues the future from the tyranny of technology. ULTRA BOWL is an adventure fable about the dangers of our Digital Age and the dystopian future toward which we may be heading. Flying home from the Super Bowl, the New York Knights are "time-napped"-transported 100 years into the future, where the global balance-of-power is decided in a football game played by robots. The Knights have been "drafted" to play for the United States in the Ultra Bowl, unaware that they are expendable pawns in a brilliant technocrat's diabolical plot to rule the world. Despite the insurmountable odds, the Knights embark on this suicide mission for the heart of a beautiful woman, the soul of a young boy and the humanity of an entire world. In this epic struggle between man & machine, a football team from the past valiantly attempts to rescue the future from the tyranny of technology.
Autorenporträt
I. J. Weinstock has enjoyed a varied career in the arts as an actor, artist and award-winning author. Besides the sci-fi novel ULTRA BOWL, his latest novel, The Secret Sex Life of Angels, is the first in a series about the magic & mystery of sex. One hundred days into his presidency, Adam Hart discovers that to fulfill his oath of office he must embark on a secret sexual odyssey that could determine the fate of the world. You'll Never Look At Sex In The Same Way Again! www.IJWeinstock.com I. J. Weinstock shares his experience playing high school football- It was on a football field that I learned an important life lesson. During the summer of my sophomore year in high school, I came down with mono. In the Fall, I tried out and made the varsity football team. At the time, I didn't know it would be months before I fully recovered. Though I attended school, I wasn't feeling well enough to play. After a couple of weeks I had to quit the team. Quitting was unacceptable to the coaches. The next summer, fully recovered, I trained every day in a park in preparation for football tryouts. I vowed I'd be in the starting lineup on opening day. I'll never forget the day a coach saw me and asked what I was doing. "Getting ready for football season," I told him. His response-"You're wasting your time." I showed up for tryouts, but was shunned. Though a senior, I was given freshman uniforms and ostracized in every possible way. No matter how hard I worked, I was ignored and, at most, assigned to carry equipment for the team. After several weeks of being invisible on the field (not being picked for teams or drills) and being abused like Richard Gere in the movie "An Officer and a Gentleman," my quest seemed an exercise in futility. I was ready to quit. Again. Dejected, I was sitting alone in the locker room after practice when one of the coaches came over and whispered, "Keep it up." I did and began to be picked for drills. I was on fire! On opening day I started on the first string varsity football team as a wide receiver and defensive cornerback. To cap off my high school comeback fairy tale, on a crisp Saturday afternoon in October, I won the Homecoming Day game with a 63-yard touchdown. When the town newspaper ran a front-page story with my picture, I began to think I could do anything I set my heart on.