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A frenetic, satirical joyride through a post-scarcity future where reputation is currency and nostalgia is a battlefield. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Down and out in the Magic Kingdom.
- neon-lit
- chaotic
- nostalgic
- paranoid
- 01
Makers
Cory Doctorow
A frenetic, idea-stuffed love letter to hacker culture and the messy, beautiful chaos of building the future from the scraps of the present.
- 02
Walkaway
Cory Doctorow
A fiercely optimistic, idea-dense joyride through a post-scarcity apocalypse where building a better world means fighting the billionaires who want to live forever.
- 03
Islands in the Net
Bruce Sterling · 2002
A globe-trotting, idea-dense plunge into the dark, data-pirated underbelly of a seemingly utopian corporate future.
- 04
Schismatrix Plus
Bruce Sterling · 1996
A dizzying, idea-dense plunge into a post-human future where biology and machinery wage a relentless war for the next stage of evolution.
- 05
Permutation City
Greg Egan
A dizzying plunge into the deep end of hard science fiction that will leave you questioning the fundamental nature of your own consciousness.
- 06
Accelerando
Charles Stross · 2005
A relentless, jargon-fueled rollercoaster ride through the technological singularity that will leave your brain feeling overclocked.
- 07
Diaspora
Greg Egan
A dizzying, unapologetically cerebral plunge into post-human consciousness and the terrifying, awe-inspiring scale of the multiverse.
- 08
Mickey7
Edward Ashton (Science fiction writer)
A darkly funny, fast-paced exploration of identity and survival told by a man who is incredibly tired of dying.
- 09
Methuselah's children
Robert A. Heinlein
A sweeping, pragmatic space opera about the price of outliving your neighbors and the endless frontier of the cosmos.
- 10
Marooned in Realtime
Vernor Vinge · 1986
A high-stakes locked-room mystery played out across millions of years of empty, post-human Earth.
- 11
Rainbows End
Vernor Vinge · 2006
A dizzying, visionary plunge into a hyper-connected augmented reality where the physical and digital worlds seamlessly, and dangerously, collide.
- 12
The Shockwave Rider
John Brunner
A frenetic, eerily prescient plunge into a hyper-connected dystopia where information is both the ultimate weapon and the only escape.
