@oantolin
It’s so sad that it isn’t even funny. It’s as if Gutenberg had given us the printing press and some big corporation decided to destroy all the ink.

@oantolin For what it's worth, the description seems to be that of the book “Throw a Hungry Loop” (1990) by Dona Schenker: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22A+thirteen-year-old+with+a+talent+for+throwing+loops+and+who+lives+on+a+ranch+with+his+father+and+grandfather+yearns+for+a+roping+horse%22

@oantolin It looks as if the initial Google-failure is in Google Books rather than in Google's AI as such; if you follow that link that says "Google Books" you do indeed find something that (1) purports to be called "Topics in Topology" (though it's a _different_ book with that title) and (2) is given that same obviously-very-wrong summary.

How _that_ happened, I have no inkling, of course.

@oantolin @gregeganSF I guess that's a topic in topology, if you squint.

@gjm @oantolin Ah right, the Google Books page https://www.google.com/books/edition/Topics_in_Topology/fzYZAQAAIAAJ?kptab=overview says “Source: Publisher” which is the same as what https://www.google.com/books/edition/Throw_a_Hungry_Loop/x1oVOQAACAAJ?hl=en says. The publishers are different though, so I think it's more likely the error is on Google Books's part rather than any publisher's.