Saturday, June 09, 2007

2 B R 0 2 B

by Kurt Vonnegut


See my earlier post - Plucker + Palm device + Gutenberg is terrific!

This short story by Kurt Vonnegut was a typically dark (yet not with out humor) story of a bright, wonderful future where EVERY child is wanted.... and NO one is allowed to be born without a death to balance. 2BR02B is the phone number to dial when you're ready to volunteer to shuffle off this mortal coil.


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Title2 B R 0 2 B
LanguageEnglish
EText-No.21279
Release Date2007-05-03
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

by Cory Doctorow

Oh man. I just got TWO new PDA's to replace my old 2 meg Palm. Between the 16 meg Handspring and 8 meg Palm, I have a ton of portable space for ebooks!! It is amazing.

And THIS was a terrific first book (links below) to start with. It is a fascinating and whimsical SF story of the future, project the adhoc internet culture into a world where EVERYTHING is run like Wikipedia. In particular, the hero Julius is part of the adhocracy that runs the Magic Kingdom at Disneyworld.

It's a murder mystery as well - with Julius fighting to maintain control over the vision for his beloved Haunted Mansion, at the same time trying to solve a murder. Really a neat story - and full of lots of interesting Disney trivia. A fun book.

A big thank you to Cory Doctorow for his placing his books (I've already loaded up another) in free form. I'm looking forward to it.

I'd also note that I really like Plucker (http://www.plkr.org/)
it's something I couldn't run before. It really makes it easy to collect stuff from Gutenberg.org!



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TitleDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Release Date2005-05-01
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