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| Plot Summary of Team Player |
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"Hours after finding out that he's been married for
four years, Malcolm Gray stumbles across another
revelation: the company he works for, ErectSoft INC
(the world's largest software developer), has never
actually produced a product and never finished a
single project. The company employees thousands of IT
workers, hundreds of whom have taken to jumping off
the top of the headquarters building on this
particular day.
As Malcolm learns the startling truth about the
company he works for, he also blunders into a plot by
a group of psychotic marketing managers to plant an
eavesdropping bug into the computer systems of
potential clients “to save them from dealing with the
wrong company”.
But, it turns out that this is only a front for an
even bigger plot – a plot to destroy the entire
universe. The headquarters building (an exact replica
of the Leaning Tower of Pizza, but a couple of
thousand feet higher) is a beacon that summons a
sinister force from the edges of creation.
“Team Player” is a satire on work in the twenty-first
century, particularly IT work, and how its absurdity
affects the way we feel about ourselves and the world
around us. It's also about that important “life
ingredient” that hundreds of years of the Protestant
Work Ethic has destroyed: magic.
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Biff Mitchell, Resident Scholar
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"Team Player is a humourous glimpse into the IT industry and the effects of capitalism on the spiritual growth of the world. Malcolm Gray is caught up in a plot to destroy the world whilst trying to avoid yet another marketing meeting for a product he has never seen completed in his 5 years of working for the company."
Louise Karczmarz, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
Descript. of chases or violence - 20%
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%
Tone of book
- humorous or laughable
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION?
- science fiction story
Spying & Investigations
Yes
What is main char. doing?
- unraveling a conspiracy
Parody
Yes
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- business executive
- computer programmer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- natural phenomena
- An "It".
Age:
- long-lived adults
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Has magical powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- can change shapes
- mind reading
- mind control
- can fly
- teleportation
- can cast all sorts of spells
- Invisibility
- can read emotions
Eccentric:
Yes
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a moderate amount
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Setting
Earth setting:
- near future (later in 21st century)
Takes place on Earth?
Yes
Style
Person?
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- orgies
- lesbians!
Is this an e-book?
Yes
How much dialogue?
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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