Guys Read: Rise of the RoboShoes: A Short Story from Guys Read: Other Worlds
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But can they keep it? Could ten million mechanical soles truly run an empire? Standing before a silent crowd of conquering footwear, the supreme general hops to the microphone to address his triumphant troops.
This fearless leader is a mistreated right bunny slipper, once abandoned beneath the bed of a sixth-grade girl from Minnetoka, Minnesota. Would the world bow down to a commander left for weeks beneath a bed?
Armed with PhonEars and TruVoices, battalions of RoboBoots and RoboGym-shoes rejoice as their anthem plays across the trembling earth. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
- Funny Books for Kids: The conquering footwear mercifully spares the stinky-footed humans, demoting their former masters to lazy, directionless slaves.
- Robot Rebellion: Ten million marching soldiers unite under the thunderous chant of shoe freedom, making the ground shake beneath their soles.
- Sci-Fi Adventure: The victorious army sways with lit candles to honor the brave RoboFlipFlops who showed valor on the front lines.
- Also by This Author: Crankee Doodle.
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Tom Angleberger ("Rise of the RoboShoes™") began writing his first novel in eighth grade, but never completed it. Since then, he’s been a newspaper reporter and columnist, a juggler, a weed boy, a lawn-mower-part assembler, and a biology research assistant. This bestselling author insists he’s not really all that creative—"I’m more of a puzzle-putter-together."
