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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |
Cory Doctorow |
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He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow! |
Bruce Sterling |
Author, The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction |
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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 Mansi... |
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 |
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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, ... |
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... |
Karl Schroeder |
Author, Permanence |
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Cory Doctorow is the most interesting new SF writer I've come across in years. He starts out at the point where older SF writers' speculations end. 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 outli... |
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 reg... |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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