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
Summary
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.Gripped from Start to Finish
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Told via a series of interviews with two actors providing the voices of the narrators, this gripping story plays out like a modern 'Lord of the Flies'. A hurricane cuts off a theme park from civilisation and the staff trapped there under the park management's crisis plan splinter into tribes based on the themed areas of the park. To say any more would really spoil your enjoyment of this unknown (in the uk imho) classic.
Mike Bockoven has created a truly believable environment and characters where the story criss-crossed via the structure of the interviews.
I came across this novel via the 'Shock Waves' podcast episode 127 where the podcasters were relating their favourite horror films and 'things' from 2018. Thank you Rebekah McKendry for this suggestion as it really has gone into my top ten of 'all-time' favourite audiobooks!
Cracking...just superb. Will listen again!
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Fantastic land
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well written
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