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Is Life Worth Living in a Perfect Utopia?

Alienating the Audience

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The Phantom of Kansas by John Varley

The main plot of the story is that human life is basically overseen by this sort of all-encompassing, but benevolent central computer. And in this eight world scenario, the moon is the most populous of the places human beings have fled to. Some of the people choose to live in historical preserves that are run as separate autonomous Disneyland's.

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