In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. įall, or Dodge in Hell is pure, unadulterated fun: a grand drama of analog and digital, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. An eternal afterlife-the Bitworld-is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.īut this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem.
It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. Legally bound to follow the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud, until it can eventually be revived. Long ago, when a much younger Dodge drew up his will, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd.
Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire.
Dick-that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller-Paradise Lost by way of Phillip K.
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