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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Taschenbuch – 1. Dezember 2003

Englisch Ausgabe von Cory Doctorow (Autor)
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Realizing his boyhood dream of moving to the twentieth-century artistic creation of Disney World, young centenarian Jules becomes incensed by a new group that would make changes to the Hall of Presidents by replacing the audioanimatronics with brain interfaces. A first novel. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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  1. Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe
    208 Seiten
  2. Sprache
    Englisch
  3. Herausgeber
    Tor Books
  4. Erscheinungstermin
    1. Dezember 2003
  5. Abmessungen
    13.97 x 1.22 x 21.59 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    076530953X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0765309532
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“He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow.” ―Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction


“This is science fiction for the non-SF reader as well as for hardcore fans of the genre--think Carl Hiassen crossed with Philip K. Dick, with just a dash of Disney magic” ―Kathryn Lively, author of Saints Preserve Us

“In a world of affluence and immortality, the big battles will be fought over culture, not politics. That's the starting-point of Wired contributor Doctorow's daring novel.... Few challenges to copyright giants are as entertaining as this book.” ―Wired

“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.” ―Rudy Rucker, author of Spaceland


“A kinetic, immersive yarn...wholly entertaining.” ―The Onion AV Club

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"He sparkles! He fizzes! He does backflips and breaks the furniture! Science fiction needs Cory Doctorow."
--Bruce Sterling, author of The Hacker Crackdown and Distraction

On The Skids In The Transhuman Future

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 keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.

Now, though, 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....

Produktinformation

  • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Tor Books; Reprint Edition (1. Dezember 2003)
  • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
  • Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 208 Seiten
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 076530953X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0765309532
  • Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.22 x 21.59 cm
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Cory Doctorow

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Cory Doctorow, 1971 in Toronto geboren, ist Schriftsteller, Journalist und Internet-Ikone. Mit dem Blog boingboing.net und seinem Kampf für ein faires Copyright hat er weltweite Bekanntheit erlangt. Seine »Little Brother«-Romane wurden internationale Bestseller. Cory Doctorow ist verheiratet, hat eine Tochter und lebt in Los Angeles.

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Tobi
4,0 von 5 Sternen Tolle Ideen, interessantes Zukunftsszenario, schwere Sprache, Gedankensprünge
Rezension aus Deutschland vom 28. November 2013
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Ich bin auf das Buch gestoßen, nachdem ich Cory Doctorows Buch "Little Brother" regelrecht verschlungen habe. Im Gegensatz zu "Little Brother" ist "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" meiner Meinung nach komplizierter zu lesen, viele Sci-Fi Ansätze, die nur nebenbei erklärt werden, Sprünge im Handlungsstrang usw. Die Story ist teils abgefahren, teils seltsam, trotzdem spannend und tiefsinnig. Auch wenn es nicht auf den ersten Moment klar wird, es steckt sehr viel Zwischenmenschliches in der Story.

Vielleicht würde ich 5 Sterne geben, wenn ich es jetzt direkt nochmal lesen würde, Potential ist da. Was mir außerdem sehr gut gefällt, ist, dass die Version auf Wunsch des Authors ohne DRM ausgeliefert wird, mir war nicht klar, dass Amazon dies überhaupt zulässt.
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flo_tm
5,0 von 5 Sternen Kaufen schon aus Prinzip !
Rezension aus Deutschland vom 28. Dezember 2013
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... weil der Autor alle seine Bücher unter CC Lizenz stellt, also gemeinfrei.

Aber davon abgesehen ist das ein interessantes und fesselnder Blick in die Zukunft und sehr angenehm zu lesen, auch z.B. für jugendliches "Schul-Englisch".
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Jennifer P
3,0 von 5 Sternen strange, short read
Rezension aus Deutschland vom 7. Januar 2019
This book was pretty strange. It is another recommendation from my husband (and something we already had on our shelf). I think I need to stop listening to his suggestions.

It was a quick read - I will give it that. At just 200 pages, I was able to finish it up in a little more than a day of reading. It is set far into the future - people actually live in Disney World. The cast members that run the rides run the park, and there is a "war" that goes on among part of the different lands. The rides that we all know and love are still there, but have been made a bit better with time. But they try to keep the rides true to themselves. The park still operates as a park, even though people actually live there full time.

That was the interesting part of the story. IT would be cool to have the park be in existece in 2400 and the beloved rides still there. But that is where the interesting part of this story stops. There is strange language that is never explained to the reader (which Mat tells me is the beauty of the book. "The characters know what it is, so they don't need to explain it" yeah yeah). Money is no longer a way you get things in life - it is social status, which is automatically uploaded to you through a chip that ever person has installed in their brain. You never die - you just get a new body when the old one wears out (or you are accidentally killed). You have to upload your memory continually into a database so that if you need a new body, you can pick up where you left off.

It was a neat enough idea, and I - knowing my husband well - can see why he liked this book. He warned me it was strange, and it was. But I read it, and now I can move on.
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Brian Clegg
4,0 von 5 Sternen Modern SF that is reminiscent of the greats
Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 18. Mai 2017
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I'm not quite sure where I picked up a recommendation for this book, but I'm glad I did as I've been able to add Cory Doctorow to my fairly short list of contemporary science fiction writers that I truly enjoy.

In this entertaining short novel, Doctorow takes on the classic SF question of 'What if?' for something that genuinely could come to pass - the no wage economy, where everyone gets the basics they need and it's up to them, through ad-hoc arrangements, to find ways to earn social credit to get more, should they want it. In a way, the social credit (known for unexplained reasons, unless I missed it, as Whuffie) is the equivalent of the rating system in the Black Mirror episode where everyone constantly rates everyone else. The other major change to society, which is far less likely to happen, is that when someone dies they are recreated from a clone which is imprinted with their backed up memory - so death becomes a minor irritation (unless you aren't entirely comfortable with a copy of yourself being a true replacement), while some choose to be put to sleep for thousands of years.

Our hero, Julius, ends up at Disney World, where he works with a group that help maintain and run a group of the attractions, in a period when some of the traditional attractions (the gem of his group's collection is the Haunted Mansion) are being replaced by direct brain access experiences. The main thread of the story follows Julius's attempts at guerrilla action to save his beloved ride in a world where social capital is everything.

On the whole the novel works well - Doctorow manages to be genuinely interesting about the challenges faced by a society where no work is required and lives are indefinite, while never getting into boring polemic. The storyline had some small issues for me, particularly when an outcome is flagged up very early - but I really enjoyed this book, which feels like the kind of thing Pohl and Kornbluth would be writing now if still around - no greater accolade - and I will certainly be trying more of Doctorow's output.
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Chris
4,0 von 5 Sternen Marks on the bottom
Rezension aus Kanada am 12. Dezember 2012
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I would give a 5/5 but somebody decided to deface the book. The book itself is very good, I recommend Cory Doctorow to anyone but these cheaper ones come with a price. There is a giant black marker mark at the bottom of the book where all the pages come together. I have no idea why that is there, it's a brand new book.
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S. D. Beallis
4,0 von 5 Sternen Whuffie and the search for meaning
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 27. August 2009
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Cory Doctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM is a futuristic murder mystery set in the future Disney World (which is sort of a museum and tribute to itself). Lots of interesting ideas can be found in this book, which I could barely put down once I started reading it. It is available for free on the site [...], Doctorow' website. It can also be purchased in trade paperback here on Amazon.

Doctorow presents a society where resources are plentiful and where the respect of others (measured as "whuffie") has replaced money as the currency of the realm. But the biggest change is the idea that death has been overcome. Oh, people can die, but then their minds are just "decanted" into a new body, a clone prepared for them. Minds are digitally stored, and death is no more than a minor inconvenience and perhaps the loss of a few days/weels of memories since the last backup was done.

Jules, a 100+ year old who has spent his life writing symphonies and earning advanced degrees, currently is living at Disney World, where ad-hoc committees are running things, having taken over the place from the shareholders. He's primarily concerned with making the Haunted Mansion an even better experience, mostly by cutting seconds off the queue to exit time, and increasing the ride's capacity. But another ad-hoc has set its sights on some classic attractions, and they have a new technology that is mind blowing. (Almost literally.)

When Jules is killed, and rebooted into a clone, he finds that the time has been used by that other ad-hoc to take over the Hall of Presidents, and Jules becomes convinced that they had something to do with his death. He becomes preoccupied with solving the mystery and preventing them from taking over what he believes is their ultimate target - his beloved Haunted Mansion.

But ultimately, this is less a story about Disney World (a major character as well as a setting, it seems to me) or the technology and sociology of this new society, and more a story about figuring out what makes life worth living. What is there out there than exists to motivate people, to keep them "interested" in living this life? Is it advanced degrees? Enhancing and expressing creativity? Is it "art" like Disney World?

I'm not sure Doctorow answers any of this satisfactorily, but then again, I don't think it affects the story. The questions are there to be asked, and examined, and that doesn't change once the book is closed. The rest is just background. In this story, it's "the way it is".

I may have liked this book more than some because I am an SF fan AND a Disney fan. But I still recommend it wholeheartedly, for the fast, engrossing read that it is.
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Nicholas P. Tang
5,0 von 5 Sternen Solid book
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 4. Dezember 2020
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I actually read a library copy, and I enjoyed it enough that I bought a copy for my wife. The book has a solid binding and paper quality. I have seen some cover art on the internet that is a little bit more exciting than this one, but don't judge a book by whatever.
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QuirkyGirl
5,0 von 5 Sternen I fell in love with Doctorow's writing when i read Makers (which is ...
Rezension aus Kanada am 9. Februar 2015
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I fell in love with Doctorow's writing when i read Makers (which is still one of my favorite books). If you haven't read it you must give it a read.

Since i enjoyed that book so much, i wanted to check out some of his other fiction. This book didn't disappoint me. I can't say its as awesome as makers, but i found it very engaging, cynical but funny. It proposes a possible near future where we have the big world issues solved like supplying enough energy and food for everyone and tackles the obvious question - what then?
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