Information wants to be free
If all’s gone well I’m in Hungary right now, and for the next thirty hours or so.
But whether that’s true or not, meanwhile, thanks to my own personal second-strike, fail-deadly, dead-man-switch system here, “Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom” (mine, not Cory’s) has been released into the wild, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
It’s a madcap extropian romp and/or (your choice!) a nihilistic singularitarian dystopia; with gratuitous gamer-culture overtones and M. John Harrison references.
“ZOMG I LOVE D&OITMK”
— Cory Doctorow
It’s free culture. You can buy it, grow it, sell it, cut it into bits, just so you give others the same privilege.
Of course what she’d told herself when she sold her soul was that it was only a copy she was selling. But from where that copy stood now, wearing this tall pale simulacrum of a body, with its birdlike bones and idealized Caucasian flesh, staring out to sea over the terrace, that argument seemed less than relevant.
She had no idea whether the flesh Yueying was alive or dead. It was easiest, she’d found, to look on the transfer in the metaphorical terms that the structure of the Kingdom invited, as a kind of emigration, to a new land from which there was no return.
Available in HTML, on Scribd, and as a PDF. The HTML loads faster, but with Scribd and the PDF you get thematically appropriate tacky type treatment.