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Beautiful World by Kristina Tracer

When digital guerrillas revolt against corporate ownership of a virtual world, one person-turned-program and his closest friends are all that stand between freedom and deletion. 

When Johnathan Dart, digital artist and world-builder, falls in love with a digital sapience living inside Irokai, the virtual world created by the Tadashiissei Corporation, his friends are skeptical of his intention to upload himself into their system.  Adam doubts that the soul can survive a destructive copy, and Julia doubts that Tadashiissei’s corporate policies are anything close to user-friendly.  Johnathan does what he can to assure his friends that all will be well, but in the heart of the corporation that owns Irokai and everything within it, a storm is brewing.  A group of revolutionaries seeking independence for Irokai from its corporate creators is mounting an ever-escalating series of attacks on the system, and Tadashiissei’s management is proving they may be willing to destroy Irokai to save it.  Can John and his digital lover, Mitsuko, find a way to stop the hackers from deleting their home without convincing Tadashiissei to delete them?

Note: Beautiful World contains some graphic sexual content and harsh language.


A serialized novel, updating fortnightly

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Listed: Feb 21, 2010

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Editor: Linda Schoales
February 21, 2010

The writing is solid in the first chapter.  May be a bit like a cross between Caprica and the Matrix with furries.

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Member: Kyt Dotson
March 30, 2010

[Incomplete review, read up to Chapter 8.]

The flow of the narrative switches between characters—being that the story is first person this is immediately confusing, until I started reading it trying to determine who was speaking at the time. Since almost all of the story is two-person scenes it’s always been [more . . .]

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Solid work, captivating story

Member: Tim Holtorf
May 7, 2010

Editor Linda Shoales made the comparison to The Matrix, and it was one I had felt when reading this.

I’ve been holding off on reviewing this for a while, because I know the author quite well, and have read other works of Kristina’s.  The writing is always solid, always thought provoking [more . . .]

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