i was starving for a fresh dystopia (nuclear annihilation is SO 1987!) and wound up with “magic kingdom” in my grubby little hands. it’s a fresh dystopia, but much as i like boing boing and just stumbling across cory doctorow’s flickr page, i have to admit that, like other commenters, i didn’t care about the characters.

the theme, “when death is gone, no one will know what to do with so much life,” is an important one. but i ended up with the impression that a “love” story with a gal who was presented as nothing so much as a philandering bimbo was supposed to be the “meaning of life.”

i’ve done some philandering bimbos in my day. i sure hope there’s more.