Length10h 3m
About this audiobook
A modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online.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?
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.0 (65K)
Includes Goodreads, StoryGraph, Amazon, LibraryThing
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length10 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 20, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author’S Note
2Interview 1: Jessica Landis—FantasticLand Historian
3Interview 3: Aaron Hoffman—FantasticLand Visitor, Evacuated from FantasticLand as Hurricane Sadie Hit
4Interview 4: Phil Mueller—Head of FantasticLand Personnel
5Interview 5: Sam Garliek—First-Shift Manager
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6Interview 6: Stuart Dietz—FantasticLand Maintenance, Mole Man
7Interview 7: Jill Van Meveren—FantasticLand Character, Deadpool Soldier
8Interview 8: Cristobal Abasolo—Concession Manager
9Interview 9: Elvis Springer—Security Manager, Leader of the Robots
10Interview 10: Sophie Ruskin—Ride Operator, Unaffiliated
11Interview 11: Clara Ann Clark—Gift Shop Manager, Leader of the ShopGirls
12Interview 12: Chase Pounder—Ride Line Supervisor, Pirate
13Interview 13: Sal McVey—Parade Dance Troup/Guest Relations, Pirate
14Interview 14: Glenn Guignol—Fire Breather in the World’s Circus, Head of the Freaks
15Interview 15: Louise Muskgrove—Cashier at Hero Haven Comics, Deadpool
16Interview 16: Stuart Dietz—FantasticLand Maintenance
17Interview 17: Anonymous
18Interview 18: Jason Card—Retail Cashier
19Interview 19: Gemma Albers—First Aid Station Chief
20Letter From The Florida National Guard
21Interview 20: Travis Barnes—Former Lieutenant in the Florida National Guard
22Interview 21: Emmet R. Kelley—Assistant Prosecutor for Florida’s 15th Judicial Circuit
23Interview 22: Brock Hockney—Character in Pirate Cove, Leader of the Pirates
24Interview 23: Ritchie Fresno—Owner of FantasticLand
25Afterword
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