Friday, January 8, 2016

Down and out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and out in the Magic Kingdom / Cory Doctorow 208 pgs.

This book, set sometime in the future where the world has evolved and gone beyond some of the problems we have today.  People are immortal...they can back up their brains and be restored in clones and all kinds of hacks and updates can be done to their bodies. Julius is the narrator of this tale.  He is over a century old and living his best life at Disney World.  He has a young beautiful girlfriend and a best friend, Dan. But all is not great at the Magic Kingdom, Julius fears that evil Debra is trying to take over Liberty Square.  Julius is murdered (but quickly restored) but the disruption is enough to allow Debra to make changes in the Hall of Presidents.  Now Julius is afraid Debra is marching towards his baby, Haunted Mansion.  Julius is probably losing his mind but ignores pleas to refresh himself because his last backup will mean he forgets that previous year with friend Dan.  Is Julius really losing it or is there an overthrow afoot?  Read to find out.

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