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FantasticLand

A Novel

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FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven
Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
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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.
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wasnt expecting a interview like book was suprising amazed and voice actors did a great job

fantastic

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This is a series of fictional interviews that unravel an event from diffrent points of view. Its masterfully done.

Style of world war z

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This book is so enthralling and left me spiralling about myself and the characters. I had to keep reminding myself this didn’t actually happen. I would highly recommend the audiobook version of this book. It just made it feel so real

Left me spiralling

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wow. such a great story that was performed perfectly. This book kept me engaged and thinking the whole way through.

amazing!

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I thought the performances were great. I am a big fan of this genre of story (the post apocalyptic interview style). The story was very compelling and the pace was steady and was hard to pause.

Amazing book

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Great concept, great narrators, great stories. Was one of the best Audiobooks I've listened to fullstop.

Fantastic Everything

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I hound it hard to get into initially but stayed the course the voice actors are amazing

A different listen

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I was blown away by this one. The story was great, very relatable. The first person account structure was excellent, made even better by the utterly brilliant voice actors. Truly the best audiobook I’ve listened to. Highly recommend.

Amazing!

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Excellent book. A quick listen as it hooks you in. The story is laid out by people being interviewed. It is a very good way to tell this sort of modern Lord of the Flies kind story. This feels like it will be picked up for a tv series eventually.

Excellent

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Would recommend! Very chilling tale with many POVs and diverse voices brought to life! It will make you question what you would do too.

Great narration

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