Julius is more than a century old. He lives and dies and lives again in a happy dystopia, when everyone is online all the time, the only wealth is respect, and modern technology has eliminated work, boredom, and death.

Only Cory Doctorow, renowned digital rights activist and coeditor of Boing Boing dot net, could see so clearly into the near-future. Luckily, he’s handed his visions down to us in the form of this outrageous and unpredictable playground of ideas.

Brazil, Twitter, George Orwell, Ender’s Game, Steve Jobs, V for Vendetta

"Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is the kind of science fiction novel that the band They Might Be Giants would have written if they’d OD’d on old cyberpunk novels and back issues of Theme Park Monthly. It’s cool, it’s hip, and it’s fun – but more importantly, it’s about something … The ideas are cool, the gadgets are neat, but, for all that the recipe is geeky, the final product is not. own and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a sleek, tightly written book that, as the best science fiction should, engages the world." – Locus