FantasticLand
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Angela Dawe
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Luke Daniels
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By:
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Mike Bockoven
About this listen
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts?
Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience. Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People. If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?
FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.
©2016 Mike Bockoven (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.The concept is excellent, built on the premise that society is 3 days' food from collapse at any given point. Take a group of 200 young people, isolate them from the world for the first time, split them into groups with no centralised leadership... yup, I can get onboard with this reality.
Well written but might benefit from a slightly slower pace in the first instance. All the killings are thought out in terms of cause and effect, but things shift from isolation and suspicion to full on tribal warfare a little quickly, maybe one more interview to bridge the gap early would have accomplished this. Then again, maybe I'm being picky.
Well worth your time if you enjoy the apocalypse for some light reading.
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Fantasticland
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Loved it
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Shockingly believable.
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