A Highly Unlikely Scenario by Rachel Cantor [Yakoub]

In the not-too-distant future, competing giant fast food factions rule the world. Leonard works for Neetsa Pizza, the Pythagorean pizza chain, in a lonely but highly surveilled home office, answering calls on his complaints hotline. ItΓÇÖs a boring job, but he likes itΓÇöthereΓÇÖs a set answer for every scenario, and he never has to leave the house.

Except then he starts getting calls from Marco, who claims to be a thirteenth-century explorer just returned from Cathay. And what do you say to a caller like that? Plus, Neetsa Pizza doesnΓÇÖt like it when you go off script. Meanwhile, LeonardΓÇÖs sister keeps disappearing on secret missions with her ΓÇ£book club,ΓÇ¥ leaving him to take care of his nephew, which means Leonard has to go outside. And outside is where the trouble starts.

A dazzling debut novel wherein medieval Kabbalists, rare book librarians, and Latter-Day Baconians skirmish for control over secret mystical knowledge, and one Neetsa Pizza employee discovers that you canΓÇÖt save the world with pizza coupons.

Genre: Science Fiction | Humour