Future World 1-3 (Hyperthought, Neurolink a.k.a. The Coin Giver, War Surf) – M.M. Buckner Free Audiobook

Written by M.M. Buckner
Read by Dina Pearlman, Peter Ganim, Christian Rummel
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 34:24

The world of 2125 is extremely toxic. It is ruled by huge corporations called Coms. The workers, or Protes, are enslaved. Humanity’s only hope is a neurosurgical technique that could unlock the mind’s power to alter reality—or destroy it.

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Book 1 ● Hyperthought ● Dina Pearlman ● 7:37

‘Hyperthought’ recounts the adventures of a young man who trusts an unscrupulous doctor to enhance his brain function, and of a young woman who tries to save him. The year is 2125, and the Earth has undergone drastic climate change due to global warming. People crowd in sealed underground habitats to avoid the stormy, toxic surface. Feisty little Jolie Sauvage leads extreme surface adventure tours for rich executives. Jolie’s friend, Dr. Judith Merida, is peddling a new cosmetic neurosurgery, which she claims will wake the brain’s latent, unconscious senses. Jolie introduces Dr. Merida to one of her wealthy tour group clients, Jin Sura, an arrogant but troubled young man with a terrible desire for knowledge. That will prove to be a disastrous mistake.

Book 2 ● Neurolink (The Coin Giver) ● Peter Ganim ● 12:47

In the 23rd century, the Earth’s surface is a toxic wasteland and corporations called Coms have replace nations, exploiting billions of poverty-stricken “protes”, whose lives they own. Executive Dominic Jedes has good looks, wealth and the future promise of his father’s place as president of Zahlen Bank, the only institution more powerful than the Coms. But when his father dies unexpectedly, Dominic endangers his inheritance with one fatal mistake. He directs Zahlen Bank to “free” 2,000 protes, trapping them on a malfunctioning submarine. The protes are supposed to die, alleviating the company of a costly asset. But they survive, and thrive, and other protes join their nascent rebellion—jeopardizing the very order of the new world. To set things right, Dominic must travel to the bottom of the ocean, face the thousands of people he left to die and find a way to stop them. The only help he has is a digital ghost of his dead father, connected to him through a neural link. But when Dominic starts to question whose side he’s really on, that link might prove to be his greatest enemy.

Book 3 ● War Surf ● Christian Rummel ● 13:59

What would you do if you were rich, bright, vigorous, virtually immortal—and nearly bored to death? You’d invent a thrill sport… It’s the 23rd century, and Nasir Deepra is 248 years old, wealthy, kept young by all-pervasive nanotechnology, a corporate executive, and bored with life. To spice things up, he has become an Agonist, dipping into war zones—many of them in satellites orbiting the Earth—and filming his daredevil antics. Agonists have a large fan-base who watch them on the Net, and they revel in the attention. A war surf goes badly and the Agonists lose their top ranking amongst surfers, so they decide to up the ante and go to Heaven, a class 10 difficulty war zone, the toughest, in order to get back on top. Nasir is reluctant to go, since he’s on the board of directors that controls Heaven, and he knows why it’s a class 10. His younger girlfriend, Sheeba, talks him into it and disaster strikes: Nasir and Sheeba are captured by workers who control Heaven. Nasir has to come to terms with the brutal exploitation he has been a part of and avoid the “disease” that runs rampant amongst Heaven’s workers.

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M.M. Buckner (Mary M. Buckner)
Future World 1 – Hyperthought (2003)
Future World 2 – Nuerolink (2004)
Future World 3 – War Surf (2005)

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