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The Artificial Kid
The Artificial Kid is a science fiction novel by Bruce Ster- selling videos of himself engaging in bloody combat with
ling, published in 1980. other fighters for the entertainment of the upper classes.
Reverie,
The Artificial Kid takes place on the planet Reverie a When Reverie’s founder, Moses Moses emerges from sev-
world of coral continents, levitating islands, and the cor- en centuries of cryosleep, and Arti discovers an unpleas-
rosive, transformative wilderness of "The Mass." Rever- ant secret about his past, both have to flee to escape from
ie has been transformed into a utopia/dystopia, with a the powers of the "Cabal" that controls Reverie from be-
stark class division. Arti, a heavily biologically modified hind the scenes.
boy from the Decriminalized Zone, becomes a pop star by
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