Short description of what this book is about:"!!!IT'S FLAT!!!" is a fast-paced, irreverent, mockumentary-style satirical comedy thriller written in the form of a first-person "true story" memoir. It follows Tom Rivera, a sarcastic, self-described professional skeptic and myth-debunker, who starts out intending to ridicule flat-Earth believers but ends up getting pulled deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole after a series of increasingly difficult-to-dismiss personal experiments and leaks (laser levels over lakes, raw SpaceX/Starlink telemetry, long-distance theodolite flights, secret Antarctic GoPro footage, etc.).
What begins as coffee-shop mockery and late-night kayaking stunts quickly spirals into a globe-trotting (or rather disc-circling) adventure involving:chaotic flat-Earth Discord bros and merch-grifting influencersparanoid Men-in-Black-style surveillancedramatic convention hecklingjailbreaks, taser incidents, Argentine navy ice-wall videosan alleged secret meeting with Elon Musk on a hidden ocean platformand finally a massive public data-dump that supposedly "proves" the Earth is a flat, accelerating disc surrounded by an Antarctic ice wall and covered by a firmament.
The tone is deliberately over-the-top, self-aware, meme-heavy, and profane - packed with absurd one-liners, conspiracy Easter eggs, pop-culture references, and gleeful mockery of both flat-Earthers and globe-earthers. It reads like a love letter / hate letter to internet conspiracy culture, written by someone who clearly enjoys both believing and disbelieving at the same time. In short:A comedic conspiracy door-stopper that pretends to be the wildest, most ridiculous flat-Earth red-pill journey ever told.
while winking very hard at the reader the entire time.
Short description of what this book is about:"!!!IT'S FLAT!!!" is a fast-paced, irreverent, mockumentary-style satirical comedy thriller written in the form of a first-person "true story" memoir. It follows Tom Rivera, a sarcastic, self-described professional skeptic and myth-debunker, who starts out intending to ridicule flat-Earth believers but ends up getting pulled deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole after a series of increasingly difficult-to-dismiss personal experiments and leaks (laser levels over lakes, raw SpaceX/Starlink telemetry, long-distance theodolite flights, secret Antarctic GoPro footage, etc.).
What begins as coffee-shop mockery and late-night kayaking stunts quickly spirals into a globe-trotting (or rather disc-circling) adventure involving:chaotic flat-Earth Discord bros and merch-grifting influencersparanoid Men-in-Black-style surveillancedramatic convention hecklingjailbreaks, taser incidents, Argentine navy ice-wall videosan alleged secret meeting with Elon Musk on a hidden ocean platformand finally a massive public data-dump that supposedly "proves" the Earth is a flat, accelerating disc surrounded by an Antarctic ice wall and covered by a firmament.
The tone is deliberately over-the-top, self-aware, meme-heavy, and profane - packed with absurd one-liners, conspiracy Easter eggs, pop-culture references, and gleeful mockery of both flat-Earthers and globe-earthers. It reads like a love letter / hate letter to internet conspiracy culture, written by someone who clearly enjoys both believing and disbelieving at the same time. In short:A comedic conspiracy door-stopper that pretends to be the wildest, most ridiculous flat-Earth red-pill journey ever told.
while winking very hard at the reader the entire time.