The Steel Beach - John Varley
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Written by John Varley
Format: MP3
Unabridged
The Golden Globe and Steel Beach take place in a universe similar to, but different from, Varley’s “Eight Worlds” universe; in both universes, the solar system has been colonized by human refugees fleeing aliens (known simply as “the Invaders”) invading the Earth. Earth and Jupiter are off-limits to humanity, but Earth’s moon (known as Luna) and the other planets and moons of the solar system have all become heavily populated. There are also minor colonies set in the Oort cloud beyond the solar system itself.
The Steel Beach in question is Luna, Earth’s moon and the most heavily-inhabited world in the solar system since the Invaders obliterated human civilization on Earth. The allusion being that humans were thrown onto the inhospitable moon, just as fish made their way onto land as they evolved.
The protagonist, Hildy Johnson, is a newspaper reporter who finds trouble beneath the near-utopian society run by the Central Computer. The Central Computer runs every aspect of every person’s life: it is the government, court, information source, and friend to every citizen.
Hildy Johnson starts off as a male reporter in the beginning of the book. He, like many people in the moon, has become dissatisfied with life. As a result, society, as well as Hildy, take part in destructive activities such as “slash boxing” (a blend of knife fighting and boxing), and in Hildy’s case, attempting suicide multiple times.
The first half of the story deals with the bizarre occurrences of life on the moon, such as the indoctrinations of celebrity heads-in-jars, negotiating with brontosaurus herds to figure out who they will sacrifice to make burger patties, and Earth-themed Disneylands which come complete with snakes, sand and sunburns. In the second half, Hildy makes contact with a group of people who have figured out how to travel through space without spacesuits. These people then reveal that they are hiding from the Central Computer, partially to keep their technology secret, and to keep free of secret experiments the Central Computer has been performing on people.
Hildy then learns that the Central Computer has been attempting to clone the deceased in order to keep the population up. Hildy then becomes suspect, as she (he has had a sex change by now) has attempted to commit suicide several times, and it is unclear if she has been rescued or cloned. The Central Computer eventually resorts to launching a military raid on the people, which eventually causes the machine itself to crash. This leaves the moon city in chaos, and in its death throes, the Central Computer sends a projection of itself to Hildy, explaining that the schizoid nature of having multiple versions of itself was conflicting and strenuous, and that the city’s doom was inevitable.
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| Creation Date: | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:42:53 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| Steel Beach 01.mp3 12.49 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 02.mp3 16.58 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 03.mp3 23.73 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 04.mp3 24.65 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 05.mp3 14.34 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 06.mp3 68.37 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 07.mp3 32.35 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 08.mp3 29.17 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 09.mp3 25.85 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 10.mp3 29.73 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 11.mp3 27.56 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 12.mp3 37.46 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 13.mp3 36.4 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 14.mp3 24.52 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 15.mp3 17.63 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 16.mp3 54.77 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 17.mp3 23.15 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 18.mp3 28.12 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 19.mp3 35.82 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 20.mp3 32.23 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 21.mp3 26.69 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 22.mp3 33.02 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 23.mp3 30.96 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 24.mp3 34.49 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 25.mp3 34.3 MBs | |
| Steel Beach 26.mp3 24.69 MBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 779.07 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 512 KBs |
| Comment: | Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
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