“This provocative jaunt...dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human.” —
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
“An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication.” —
Booklist
Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor,
Rabbit & Robot
tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the
Tennessee—
his father’s lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots.
To help him shake his Woz addiction, Billy and Rowan transport Cager Messer up to the
Tennessee
, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they’ll be stranded alone in space forever.
In
, Andrew Smith, Printz Honor author of
Grasshopper Jungle
, makes you laugh, cry, and consider what it really means to be human.