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Trapped On A Post-Apocalyptic Highway, In A Robot Truck

All of a sudden, I'm desperate to read Junot Diaz's new science fiction novel — just as soon as he can finish it. Diaz, who just won the Pulitzer Prize for The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao, a book littered with nerdy references to Star Wars and comics, shared a brief excerpt from his new novel-in-progress, Dark America, during an Amazon.com interview. And's a dazzling passage, set aboard a robot truck in a desolate future world. More »

3:30 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
1,502 views, 9 comments

Latest by steven522: My partial memory of the movie makes me think that they did indeed try it with a cow. It seems like they made several attempts from a person waiting in the road and chickening out to tying up either more »