Free PDF - The Amadeus Net

[Andreiuta]

Free from ENC Press until May 31 - The Amadeus Net by Mark A. Rayner. You'll need to join their Facebook page here for the link.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart walks into the sex change clinic, determined to have his “sprouter” snipped off. So begins The Amadeus Net, a satirical novel set in the year 2028, which explores art, love, and identity at the end of the world. For more than two centuries, the one-time wunderkind has kept his existence secret while he tried to understand his immortality. Living in style through funds raised by selling “lost” Mozart works, he has also helped to create Ipolis, a utopian city-state, after the cataclysmic Shudder, a global disaster caused by an asteroid strike in 2015.

But a few complications mar Mozart’s utopia. The woman he loves is a lesbian, which, paradoxically, makes him forget about his sex-change plans. The world’s greatest reporter knows he’s still alive and will stop at nothing to expose him. The stakes are higher than he knows, because if the reporter finds him, so will the spy planning to sell Mozart’s DNA to the highest bidder. Oh, and, by the way, the world might end in seven days. His only allies are a psychotic American artist, a bland Canadian diplomat, and the city itself: a sapient, thinking machine that is screwing up as only a sapient, thinking machine can.

There are a couple of threads with recommendations for this book so you might want to refer to them for more info.

[ApK]

Originally Posted by Andreiuta

"His only allies are a psychotic American artist, a bland Canadian diplomat, and the city itself: a sapient, thinking machine that is screwing up as only a sapient, thinking machine can. "

Ha! That line alone makes me want to take a look.

Note you do NOT need to have a Facebook account or join anything to get the free book. The links are public.

ApK

[Little_bear]

Thank you for the link. I was able to download it without a Facebook account.

[nookkatz]

Thank you! I'm glad no Facebook account is needed. I don't do Facebook.

[FF2]

Thanks - another FB NON-joiner.

[ApK]

And here I thought I was the only one. I guess we have a FB Fifth Column resistance.

[rhadin]

I, too, am not a member of Facebook. I can't figure out why anyone wants to give zucker and the world personal information. In the 1950s and 1960s we fought Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover's invasion of our privacy; now my kids just give it all away to hundreds of millions of people.

[ApK]

Same reason we have "reality TV", Richard.

[koland]

Originally Posted by rhadin

I, too, am not a member of Facebook. I can't figure out why anyone wants to give zucker and the world personal information. In the 1950s and 1960s we fought Joe McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover's invasion of our privacy; now my kids just give it all away to hundreds of millions of people.

You have to give them info ... nothing says it has to be true info.

[Vandy]

Hello, Andreiuta.

I'd like to add my thanks to you for providing this information. I do appreciate your taking the time to post it.

Without trying to start a "debate", I would like to mention that I am on Facebook and have been for some time. I find it to be a wonderful way to reconnect with old freinds and family -- both near and distant. I've been able to reconnect with a number of people that I would otherwise not be able to.

I will say that I don't play Facebook games as they are a very big time sink. I do share my information (such as it is) but only with my friends -- people I would share it with anyway.

I guess I just enjoy the opportunity to use the application and really don't want or bother to get involved in the "politics" of it...

Regards,