Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Audiobook (Free)

On The Skids In The Transhuman Long term Jules is a young man barely a hundred years old. He’s resided long enough to start to see the cure for loss of life and the finish of scarcity, to understand ten languages and compose three symphonies…and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney Globe. Disney World! The best artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth hundred years. Now in the keeping of the network of ‘ad-hocs’ who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the tiniest high-tech touches. Now, though, the ‘ad hocs’ are under assault. A fresh group has taken over the Hall from the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with brand-new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that provide guests the illusion to be Washington, Lincoln, and all of the others. For Jules, that is an strike on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Even worse: it seems this fresh group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It’s just his fourth loss of life and revival, in the end.) Right now it’s war….