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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
by Cory Doctorow
I found it quite impressive that this book was published before social networking sites -- Facebook, Twitter, etc. -- became popular, as social networking uses measures of users' popularity in similar ways as Doctorow uses "whuffie" in the novel. Also of note is that the tangent of Jules's marriage to Zed predates the film The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, since there is a lot of thematic similarity there.
Doctorow is ahead of his time in a lot of the ideas he created in this book, but one book I did notice he borrowed from, intentionally or not, is [a:Edward Bellamy's|48310|Edward Bellamy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1294970359p2/48310.jpg] [b:Looking Backward|296977|Looking Backward 2000-1887|Edward Bellamy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1309284869l/296977._SY75_.jpg|803], as far as the idea of lesser desired jobs paying better to make sure they were done by members of society.
Getting back to Doctorow being ahead of his time, the copy of this that I read was a digital copy he released under a Creative Commons license on his website, "allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without needing any further permission from him or his publisher." The digital copy can be found here.
Doctorow is ahead of his time in a lot of the ideas he created in this book, but one book I did notice he borrowed from, intentionally or not, is [a:Edward Bellamy's|48310|Edward Bellamy|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1294970359p2/48310.jpg] [b:Looking Backward|296977|Looking Backward 2000-1887|Edward Bellamy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1309284869l/296977._SY75_.jpg|803], as far as the idea of lesser desired jobs paying better to make sure they were done by members of society.
Getting back to Doctorow being ahead of his time, the copy of this that I read was a digital copy he released under a Creative Commons license on his website, "allowing the whole text of the book to be read for free and distributed without needing any further permission from him or his publisher." The digital copy can be found here.