Pop culture, chaos theory, and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula Award - winning author of Doomsday Book.

Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennett O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luck, they find a joint project in a flock of sheep. But a series of setbacks and disappointments arise before they are able to find answers to their questions - with the unintended help of the errant, forgetful, and careless office assistant Flip.

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Listening Length	6 hours and 30 minutes
Author	Connie Willis
Narrator	Kate Reading
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	16 February 2009
Publisher	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NPB9LQU
Best Sellers Rank	88,605 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 66 in Humourous Science Fiction 1,139 in Humourous Fiction 3,408 in Literary Fiction (Audible Books & Originals)

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S. Henley

Chain it to your bookshelf, as if you lend it you won't get it back.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 September 2016

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This is an all time favourite book. Re-read MANY times. I even set it as prerequisite reading for one of my post grad classes on organisational change. It is funny, it is appallingly organisationally accurate, and it can be read for layers of meaning. For a quite short, simple, and what could be read as a frivolous book (about a centimetre thick) it is incredibly dense with possibilities and information. It could be read as a romance, or as a seriously funny slapstick book about organisational life, or as satire on organisational politics, or a brief introduction to applied chaos theory, or even just a series of fascinating tidbits and sub stories about trends, fads, fashion, leadership and follower-ship. I cannot recommend this book enough. Once again a book that I buy multiple copies of, as I love recommending it but never expect to get it back when I loan it out.

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Samrosie

Sheep rule!

Reviewed in Australia on 5 April 2015

One of the quirkiest rom com stories ever
The 'trend' trivia at the start of each chapter is a hoot. And the social commentary is spot on
Borrow as many of your fave books from the library as you can!

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Sheena

An interesting and informative read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2015

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I always enjoy Connie Willis' writing, but didn't find this to be as brilliant as "To Say Nothing of the Dog" or "Doomsday Book". The characters seemed less convincing than in her other books, and the research setting failed to convince me of its authenticity. Also,I guessed the ending well before I got to it.
Nevertheless, the subject matter is thought-provoking, and as I had never heard of the term "Bellwether" before, I did learn something that can be applied to life. Anyone in a managerial or teaching position might find these ideas very useful indeed.

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Bajka

Perfect contemporaty writer !!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 November 2013

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She is the most clever and wisdom writer which I red.
In this story is about - old Italian saying - Pipa passed
-English writer Robert Browling
- Chaos Theory,
and a lot informations about our crazy behaviour.
Barbara

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DAB

I always enjoy Connie Willis books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 December 2014

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I always enjoy Connie Willis books, and this one didn't disappoint. As usual she mixes science with fiction, an throws in a lot of good humour.

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A Fandorin fan

Rather tedious.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2019

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The best parts are the ones not meant to be funny, and those are also tedious.
Also, horrible OCR on Kindle version.

Frederick Creamer

Superb book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2013

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The book arrived on time and the condition was as described - Connie Willis is a brilliant author and this is one of her best.

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