![]() ![]() Whuffie, a form of digital social reputation, replaces money and is a constantly updated rating that measures how much esteem and respect other people have for a person. ![]() "Bitchun Society" is the dominant Earth culture in which rejuvenation and body-enhancement have made death obsolete, material goods are no longer scarce, and everyone is granted basic rights that in our present age are mostly considered luxuries.Zed (also known as Zoya) is a transhuman who was married to Julius for 18 months, went crazy, and reverted to a backup from before she met Julius.Tom and Rita are Lil's parents who were "members of the original ad hoc that had seized power in Walt Disney World, wresting control from a gang of wealthy former shareholders who had been operating it as their private preserve".Tim is a programmer of synthetic memories.She spent a decade in Disneyland Beijing, coding sim-rides. Debra is one of the old guard of Disney World and was a comrade of Lil's parents before they went deadhead.He is a former missionary for the Bitchun utopia who has lost the will to live now that there are no technophobes left to convert. She is 15 percent of Jules' age, but outwardly the same age. Lil, age 23, with long red hair and freckles, is Jules' girlfriend.His childhood dream is living at Disney World (a.k.a. Julius (also known as Jules), the narrator of the book, is more than a century old. ![]()
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