Cory Doctorow 3 hr 26 min read

In a post-scarcity future where death is temporary and reputation is currency, a man devoted to running Disney World's Haunted Mansion finds his beloved attraction under threat.

Cory Doctorow's 2003 debut novel is a witty, prescient cyberpunk-flavored tale of the 'Bitchun Society,' reputation economies, and backups of the self. Sharp, funny, ideas-packed. Read it for an inventive early-2000s vision of immortality, obsolescence, and a murder in the Magic Kingdom.

In its time

Published in 2003, during the 2000s, open-culture and post-scarcity visions.

Reading it

3 hr 26 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).