Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

TitleDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Year for Search2003
AuthorsDoctorow, Cory [Efram](b. 1971)
Date Published2003
PublisherTor
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsCanadian author, English author, Male author
Annotation

Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. But other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people.

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The author (b. 1971) was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.

Full Text

2003 Doctorow, Cory [Efram] (b. 1971). Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. New York: Tor. Merril

Humorous eutopia and dystopia where people live in Disney World, which has been maintained as it was but is now part of a world without death or scarcity. Other people take it over and use its displays, enhanced and changed, to control people. The author was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.