Nebula Award: Best Novel nominee (2005).
"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...
