It's 2039 and Los Angeles has fallen in love with M.O.I.s, intelligent basketball-shaped robots that have taken the world by storm. The whole craze is a little annoying to introverted teenager John Glover until Ball rolls into his life, a wise-cracking robot with a heart of tungsten (and some gold).But buried deep in Ball's code is a secret that will send its new owner into a collision course with a host of scheming parties who want the robot for their own gain. Can John and Ball stay out of the crosshairs long enough to answer the riddle that keeps running through Ball's mind?Ball is a science fiction novel set in a world populated by intelligent machines for the first time. If you like your robots hilarious instead of homicidal, you'll love the witty and colorful M.O.I.s.