I owe a great debt to the writers and editors who mentored and encouraged me: James Patrick Kelly, Judith Merril, Damon Knight, Martha Soukup, Scott Edelman, Gardner Dozois, Renee Wilmeth, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Claire Eddy, Bob Parks and Robert Killheffer. I am also indebted to my editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden and my agent Donald Maass, who believed in this book and helped me bring it to fruition. Finally, I must thank the readers, the geeks and the Imagineers who inspired this book. Cory Doctorow San Francisco September 2002 -- ================= 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: ============================= 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 -- ========================== Machine-readable metadata: ========================== <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"> <Work rdf:about="http://craphound.com/down"> <dc:title>Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom</dc:title> <dc:date>2003-1-9</dc:date> <dc:description>A novel by Cory Doctorow: 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&#45;ago twentieth century. Now in the care of a network of volunteer "ad&#45;hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high&#45;tech touches.