Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a damn fine piece of inventive fiction. It’s set in a society where there’s abundance rather than scarcity, which pretty well describes the economy of ideas in the book. It not only manages at least a meme a chapter, but it’s also got a twisty narrative with characters to care about. And it’s fun.

You can download it for free (75,000 people did in the first month) or would it be very old-fashioned of me to suggest that you buy a copy so Cory can make some money off the damn thing? You can even get one inscribed by the author his own self.

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