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Old 22nd March 2005, 04:02 AM   #2 (permalink)
Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
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Re: SciFi BC Suggestions for April

But of course! I'll repeat Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow.


Here's the summary:

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Welcome to Bitchun society, where all today's commonplace problems have been solved: even death is a minor inconvenience, since one can make regular backups. Our hero has gone to Disneyland--his habit at times of major personal crisis--where he works for the ad-hocracy that runs the Haunted Mansion and the Hall of Presidents. It is a great honor to be working on the pinnacle of late-twentieth-century cultural and artistic achievement--Disneyland, that would be--and it inspires great loyalty. Our man begins feeling the pressure of change, however, after a cookie-cutter teenybopper shoots him dead for apparently no reason at all. Convinced that a new ad-hocracy on the block used his death to take over the Hall of Presidents, he vows to sabotage their plans and protect the sanctity of the Haunted Mansion. Thus begins a cycle of destruction and conflict with unexpected ramifications for the park--and his personal life.
The good news is, Doctorow lets you download the book free, here: http://craphound.com/down/download.php

The book has also been published traditionally, by Tor.
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