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The author, a native of Philadelphia and an alumnus, as was Wilt Chamberlain, of Overbrook High School, spent four years researching and interviewing the most important people in Wilt's life. The result is a capturing of Wilt's personality and thoughts that relatively few people other than family and closest friends ever knew.

In the near-future, eco-terrorism against major fossil and nuclear energy facilities is widespread. At the same time, Badger Energy, the latest company formed by energy entrepreneur and climate change activist, Richard Strossel, is developing a new technology that uses high-temperature superconductors to store enough renewable wind and solar energy to power a city reliably. However, these systems can be made to explode with energy release equivalent to a tactical nuclear weapon.