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The Truth about Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve

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as our kids get older they inevitably get smarter. Finally there is a guidebook that will help me keep up with them and counter all of their Santa related "but if he's real then how does he ______?" questions. Thanks for making me a believer again.

Tough to combine "smart & funny" in such an entertaining way, but this book does it very well!

"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" and this book tells you just how he does it, but even though you now know the science behind Santa you can still believe that he is real and that he does manage to get to every home in the world at midnight on Christmas Eve.

And none of the stuff in the book is made up - or at least most of it isn't. This is real science - around today or at least in the offing - not science fiction - though some of it started there and some may still be in that realm.

But it makes Santa's trek plausible - well, if you really believe!

I truly laughed out loud when I read this book. Santa's spying tree ornaments would confirm it. If you enjoy a good satire, clever prose and learning how to time travel--you will enjoy this book. For those aesthetes out there, the book is beautifully illustrated and comes in a compact hard cover. It is actually the perfect holiday gift and I have picked it up for my friends, family, children's teachers, and my work colleagues. I hope to see more of this genre from this author in the future.

This is the book I've been looking for ever since I was a parent. I just never knew it. Now when my children ask how Santa Claus can fit down the chimney or deliver millions of presents across the world in a few hours, I'll have the answer:

Santa is a bio-engineered immortal equipped by aliens with technology from the future.

At least that's the hypothesis of Gregory Mone, a contributing editor to Popular Science and author of The Truth about Santa: Wormholes, Robots, and What Really Happens on Christmas Eve. Mone uses his considerable scientific knowledge to explain how Santa, using technology that is still decades away for us mere mortals, can accomplish his herculean feats.

- Delivering presents across the globe in a single night? The work of an army of lieutenants utilizing wormholes built into our chimneys and windows.

- Flying reindeer? A myth; Santa uses a warp-powered sleigh for his personal transportation. (Because of the hazards of involved Santa shuns wormhole travel. His lieutenants are well compensated for the risk.)

- Elves making toys? Actually their main job is maintaining the huge IT infrastructure needed to support Santa's operations.

Mone has crafted a book that combines a wicked (and slightly NSFW) sense of humor with a survey of near-future tech, all wrapped in the peppermint shell of Santa's annual rounds. Adults will get a chuckle out of the science fiction-inspired explanations, but I expect children will suspect the truth: that Mone is just a patsy for Santa, throwing us off the trail.

As every child knows: it's all magic.

With his tongue placed firmly in his cheek, and broad wink at his audience, science writer Gregory Mone gives readers the truth behind Santa.

It's wormholes, alien technology, warp drive engines, spying tree ornaments, and organ replacements from robotic surgeons.

Mone takes current science, stuff that is already in use, or being experimented with, and shows how Santa does it all from living so long to getting around the world. This isn't science-fiction, but actual science explained in such a way that even a boneheaded layman like me can understand it.

This is a lot of fun, science you can laugh about.

I enjoyed the heck out of it. The explanations are just plausible enough to keep my 8-year-old going for a couple more years and funny enough that it's a good read for adults. Who would have thought that Santa is from Brooklyn?

I bought this book for my 10 and 11 year old nephews. They really couldn't get the tongue-in-cheek style but the adults found it amusing.

This was a last minute Christmas gift idea that came in time! Very impressive service. And the book was good, too!!