"Cory Doctorow - Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

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 this novel. I predict big
things for Down and Out -- it could easily become a breakout genre-buster.



Mark Frauenfelder

Contributing Editor, Wired Magazine

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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.├К He starts out at the
point where older SF writers' speculations end.├К It's a distinct pleasure to give him some Whuffie.