Cory Doctorow San Francisco September 2002_Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

================= About the author: =================

Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier

Foundation, www.eff.org, and maintains a personal site at

www.craphound.com. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing

at www.boingboing.net, with more than 250,000 visitors a month. He won

the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer at the 2000 Hugo Awards.

Born and raised in Toronto, he now lives in San Francisco. He enjoys

using Google to look up interesting facts about long walks on the beach.

============================= Other books by Cory Doctorow:

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A Place So Foreign and Eight More - short story collection, forthcoming

from Four Walls Eight Windows in fall 2003, with an introduction by

Bruce Sterling

Essential Blogging, O'Reilly and Associates, 2002 - with Rael Dornfest,

J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction, Alpha Books,

2000 - co-written with Karl Schroeder

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Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see

the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and

compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up

residence in Disney World.

Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago

twentieth century. Now in the care of a network of volunteer

"ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always

have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.

Now, though, it seems the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has

taken over the Hall of the Presidents and is replacing its venerable

audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces

that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the

others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney

World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed.

This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.)

Now it's war: war for the soul of the Magic Kingdom, a war of

ever-shifting reputations, technical wizardry, and entirely

unpredictable outcomes.

Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and human insight, Down and

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coming-of-age romantic comedy and a kick-butt cybernetic

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