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Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war....… (más)
lampbane: Another look at the concept of a reputation economy, where wealth is measured by how famous a person is, and the main character desperately wants to stop being an "extra": just another face in the crowd.
En un futuro cercano, donde la muerte, la pobreza y el trabajo han sido abolidos en la todopoderosa Sociedad Bitchun, Jules ve realizado el sueño de su infancia de vivir y trabajar en Disney World, junto a la adhocracia que controla el Reino Mágico. Pero la tranquila vida de Jules y los suyos se ve alterada por la llegada de un nuevo grupo de adhócratas que ponen en peligro la pureza y estabilidad de todo Disney World. Y cuándo el propio Jules es asesinado por un desconocido, comienza la verdadera lucha por el control del Reino Mágico.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I lived long enough to see the cure for death; to see the rise of the Bitchun Society, to learn ten languages; to compose three symphonies; to realize my boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World; to see the death of the workplace and of work.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
We've both got a lot of living to do before we know what's what.
Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches. Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war....
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Pero la tranquila vida de Jules y los suyos se ve alterada por la llegada de un nuevo grupo de adhócratas que ponen en peligro la pureza y estabilidad de todo Disney World. Y cuándo el propio Jules es asesinado por un desconocido, comienza la verdadera lucha por el control del Reino Mágico.