Pastworld

Written by Ian Beck

All of London has become a Victorian theme park, and a killer stalks its fog.

368 pages· 79,340 words· Est. 9 hour read· 880L· AR 6.3 · 13 AR pts

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In the future, London has been turned into Pastworld, a theme park recreating Victorian times for paying visitors. Eve has lived there all her life without knowing it is a park, until a threat forces her to flee. Caleb, a tourist, finds the lawless past thrilling until he becomes a fugitive. Meanwhile a deadly figure called the Fantom prowls the fog, claiming victim after victim.

From the publisher

What if all of London were really an amusement park–a whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That’s the wildly original premise of Ian Beck’s Pastworld, a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past. Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who doesn’t know she’s living in a theme park until a mysterious threat forces her to leave home. Caleb is a visiting tourist who finds the lawlessness of the past thrilling–until he suddenly becomes a fugitive from an antiquated justice system. And in the midst of it all, in the thick London fog a dark and deadly figure prowls, claiming victim after victim. He’s the Fantom, a creature both of the past and of the present, in whose dark purpose Caleb and Eve will find their destinies combined. Page-turning, complex, and haunting, Pastworld masterfully exposes the human experience of the past, of violence, of technology, and of entertainment.

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