Cory Doctorow - Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom

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Blurbs..3
A note about this book.6
PROLOGUE.12
CHAPTER 1..17
CHAPTER 2..23
CHAPTER 3..27
CHAPTER 4..43
CHAPTER 5..56
CHAPTER 6..73
CHAPTER 7..86
CHAPTER 8..101
CHAPTER 9..115
CHAPTER 10..129
Acknowledgements.133
About the author134
Other books by Cory Doctorow..135
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Cory Doctorow
Copyright 2003 Cory Doctorow
doctorow@craphound.com
http://www.craphound.com/down
Tor Books, January 2003
ISBN: 0765304368
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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
#
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
#
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 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,
mechanical ghosts of the Haunted Mansion have come to seem like a precious link to a past when we
could tell the real from the simulated, the true from the false.
Cory Doctorow--cultural critic, Disneyphile, and ultimate Early Adopter--uses language with the
reckless confidence of the Beat poets. Yet behind the dazzling prose and vibrant characters lie ideas we
should all pay heed to. The future rushes on like a plummeting roller coaster, and it's hard to see where
we're going. But at least with this book Doctorow has given us a map of the park.
Karl Schroeder
Author, Permanence
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Cory Doctorow is the most interesting new SF writer I've come across in years.Ê He starts out at the
point where older SF writers' speculations end.Ê It's a distinct pleasure to give him some Whuffie.
Rudy Rucker
Author, Spaceland
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Cory Doctorow rocks! I check his blog about ten times a day, because he's always one of the first to
notice a major incursion from the social-technological-pop-cultural future, and his voice is a compelling
vehicle for news from the future. Down and Out in The Magic Kingdom is about a world that is visible in
its outlines today, if you know where to look, from reputation systems to peer-to-peer adhocracies.
Doctorow knows where to look, and how to word-paint the rest of us into the picture.
Howard Rheingold
Author, Smart Mobs
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Doctorow is more than just a sick mind looking to twist the perceptions of those whose realities remain
uncorrupted - though that should be enough recommendation to read his work. *Down and Out in the
Magic Kingdom* is black comedic, sci-fi prophecy on the dangers of surrendering our consensual
hallucination to the regime. Fun to read, but difficult to sleep afterwards.
Douglas Rushkoff
Author of Cyberia and Media Virus!
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"Wow! Disney imagineering meets nanotechnology, the reputation economy, and Ray Kurzweil's
transhuman future. As much fun as Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, and as packed with mind bending
ideas about social changes cascading from the frontiers of science."
Tim O'Reilly
Publisher and Founder, O'Reilly and Associates
#
Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in
it. I couldn't put the book down.
Bruce Schneier
Author, Secrets and Lies
#
Cory Doctorow is one of our best new writers: smart, daring, savvy, entertaining, ambitious, plugged-in,
and as good a guide to the wired world of the twenty-first century that stretches out before us as you're
going to find.
Gardner Dozois
Editor, Asimov's SF
#
Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" tells a gripping, fast-paced story that hinges
on thought-provoking extrapolation from today's technical realities. This is the sort of book that captures
and defines the spirit of a turning point in human history when our tools remake ourselves and our world.
Mitch Kapor
Founder, Lotus, Inc., co-founder Electronic Frontier Foundation
A note about this book
"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" is my first novel. It's an actual, no-foolin' words-on-paper book,
published by the good people at Tor Books in New York City. You can buy this book in stores or
online, by following links like this one:
http://www.craphound.com/down/buy.php
So, what's with this file? Good question.
I'm releasing the entire text of this book as a free, freely redistributable e-book. You can download it,
put it on a P2P net, put it on your site, email it to a friend, and, if you're addicted to dead trees, you can
even print it.
Why am I doing this thing? Well, it's a long story, but to shorten it up: first-time novelists have a tough
row to hoe. Our publishers don't have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us.
Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth. I'm not bad at word-of-mouth. I have a blog, Boing
Boing (http://boingboing.net), where I do a *lot* of word-of-mouthing. I compulsively tell friends and
strangers about things that I like.
And telling people about stuff I like is *way*, *way* easier if I can just send it to 'em. Way easier.
What's more, P2P nets kick all kinds of ass. Most of the books, music and movies ever released are not
available for sale, anywhere in the world. In the brief time that P2P nets have flourished, the ad-hoc
masses of the Internet have managed to put just about *everything* online. What's more, they've done it
for cheaper than any other archiving/revival effort ever. I'm a stone infovore and this kinda Internet
mishegas gives me a serious frisson of futurosity.
Yeah, there are legal problems. Yeah, it's hard to figure out how people are gonna make money doing it.
Yeah, there is a lot of social upheaval and a serious threat to innovation, freedom, business, and whatnot.
It's your basic end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenario, and as a science fiction writer,
end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it scenaria are my stock-in-trade.
I'm especially grateful to my publisher, Tor Books (http://www.tor.com) and my editor, Patrick Nielsen
Hayden (http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite) for being hep enough to let me try out this experiment.
All that said, here's the deal: I'm releasing this book under a license developed by the Creative
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