Down and Out is the summer reading pick at McMaster U

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Down and Out is the summer reading pick at McMaster U

This is sweet -- the McMaster University Daily News Summer Book Club has chosen my novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom as their summer reading pick.

"I chose Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom because I am a science fiction fan first and foremost, and because he's a Canadian author," says Trzeciak. "Doctorow publishes under the Creative Commons license, which makes his work freely available in any language, which I think is really interesting. His work isn't way-out sci-fi, but it gives us a glimpse into the possible future."

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(Thanks, Derek!)

Comment (1) | Posted on July 11, 2007 07:51 AM

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom « McMaster University Library says:

July 11, 2007 at 5:01 pm

[...] Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom This summer at McMaster our Daily News has launched a Summer Reading Club. I’ll be leading a discussion of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. As it turns out, Cory Doctorow has blogged the event! How cool is that? [...]

Cory Doctorow meshes all of these outlandish ideas into a novel of power and skill. His story is told on many levels, with a surprising complexity and the perfect touch of humor. Like all good science fiction, Doctorow tackles the issues of today, tomorrow. Morality, cloning, socialism, poverty, right to die, freedom of choice, pratfalls of hubris, and the cult of celebrity are all explored in what may be the best debut science-fiction novel since Neuromancer