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Down and Out
in the
Magic Kingdom
Cory Doctorow
© 2003 Cory Doctorow
doctorow@craphound.com
http://www.craphound.com/down
Tor Books, January 2003
ISBN: 0765304368

Cory Doctorow Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom 1
Blurbs
He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science
fiction needs Cory Doctorow!
Bruce Sterling
Author, The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction
— • —
In the true spirit of Walt Disney, Doctorow has ripped a part of our common
culture, mixed it with a brilliant story, and burned into our culture a new set
of memes that will be with us for a generation at least.
Lawrence Lessig
Author, The Future of Ideas
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Cory Doctorow doesn’t just write about the future - I think he lives there.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom isn’t just a really good read, it’s also,
like the best kind of fiction, a kind of guide book. See the Tomorrowland of
Tomorrow today, and while you’re there, why not drop by Frontierland, and
the Haunted Mansion as well? (It’s the Mansion that’s the haunted heart of
this book.) Cory makes me feel nostalgic for the future - a dizzying, yet
rather pleasant sensation, as if I’m spiraling down the tracks of Space
Mountain over and over again. Visit the Magic Kingdom and live forever!
Kelly Link
Author, Stranger Things Happen
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is the most entertaining and exciting
science fiction story I’ve read in the last few years. I love page-turners,
especially when they are as unusual as this novel. I predict big things for
Down and Out—it could easily become a breakout genre-buster.
Mark Frauenfelder
Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine
Imagine you woke up one day and Walt Disney had taken over the world.
Not only that, but money’s been abolished and somebody’s developed the
Cure for Death. Welcome to the Bitchun Society—and make sure you’re
strapped in tight, because it’s going to be a wild ride. In a world where
everyone’s wishes can come true, one man returns to the original,
crumbling city of dreams—Disney World. Here in the spiritual center of the
Bitchun Society he struggles to find and preserve the original, human face
of the Magic Kingdom against the young, post-human and increasingly
alien inheritors of the Earth. Now that any experience can be simulated,
human relationships become ever more fragile; and to Julius, the corny,