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Ctrl+Alt+Laugh

by Abdul Mannan

When helpful gadgets create comic complications

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When helpful gadgets create comic complications

Smart speakers, refrigerators, robots, and coffee machines take center stage in this collection of short stories, where technology’s efforts to make everyday life easier lead to confusion and comic mishaps. The stories range across different corners of the world, connecting household gadgets with the broader experience of living amid increasingly capable machines. Its short-story format offers a series of separate encounters with modern technology, each built around the absurdities that can arise when devices seem to have ideas of their own.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in humorous fiction about technology.
  • Readers who enjoy collections of short stories centered on smart devices and everyday gadgets.

Themes

Everyday technologyHuman-machine interactionsHumor and mishaps

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Book overview

In the age of smart devices and high-tech gadgets, sometimes technology has a mind of its own! Ctrl+Alt+Laugh is a hilarious collection of short stories in which the latest tech tools and devices cause chaos, confusion, and plenty of laughs. From chatty smart speakers to overzealous refrigerators, each story takes you to a different corner of the world, showcasing the humorous side of modern technology's attempts to "help" us.

Whether it's a robot that schedules your life or a coffee machine that takes its job way too seriously, these stories highlight the absurdity of our tech-filled lives. Written with humor and heart, Ctrl+Alt+Laugh will leave you chuckling at the every day (and not-so-everyday) challenges we face as we navigate a world increasingly run by machines.

Perfect for fans of lighthearted humor and tech enthusiasts alike, this collection invites you to laugh at the delightful mishaps and surprises that technology brings into our homes and our lives.

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