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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

Auteur(s): Neal Stephenson
Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
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A New York Times Notable Book

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 Philip K. Dick - that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds.

In his youth, Richard “Dodge” Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. 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.

One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with difficult decisions. 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. 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.

In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife - the Bitworld - is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.

But this brave new immortal world is not the Utopia it might first seem...

Fall, 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. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on the revolutionary breakthroughs that are transforming our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in one grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the modern age.

©2019 Neal Stephenson (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
Cyberpunk Fiction Science-fiction Suspense Techno-thrillers Thrillers et romans à suspense Technologie
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The Waterhouse’s, Shaftoes and Forthrasts clans are all continued from previous books (Cryptonomicon, Baroque saga, Reamde). He carries it forward really well. We see how the various family sagas are moving forward. Yes. It draws on a bit. But, overall a great [series of] book[s].

Keeps adding to his world.

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For those who aren't already Stephenson readers, I'd say start elsewhere. This book is the culmination of many works reaching back to Cryptonomicon in publishing sequence, and The Baroque Cycle in narrative time.

it is an allegory that interweaves a number of potent themes: the end of information age, the possibility of digitized consciousness, the idea of reality as a simulation, and the tension between liberalism and progressivism.

I loved it.

I'll probably read again more than once.

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Okay. I’m going to say it: Fall is boring.
I was excited to return to the adventures of the Forthrast family, and eagerly awaited this sequel to Reamde, but I could barely finish it. Stephenson’s view of the singularity is pinched and narrow, and his characters mostly flat plot devices, rather than the living people I have come to expect from him. Coming so soon after the similarly disappointing DODO, Fall comes dangerously close to pushing Stephenson off my must-read list!

Disappointing

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Ties for first place with Diamond age, huge scope and well written enough that it never drags in 30 hours. M Hillgartner does an excellent job with the reading!

Best yet

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ontology a little hand waved. places you can't map. the numinous is suggested, but neither good nor evil deeply explored.

Stephenson's take on the theory of knowledge, id

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The middle of this book could be a story of its own. The ending should be a related but different book.

Amazing at times, goes on too long

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Neal Stephenson spins another great story, interpetting technologies futures and our meatspace misuse of them

Stephenson spins another great story

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The narrator did an awesome job of bringing this story to life with accents and variations of tone. The story was pretty good. The first half of the book was awesome, but the story slowed down in the last half, only to be picked back up for the last 5%. At the end you understand all the small windings but it was a bit of a challenge to get through them. I'm glad I read it.

Overall a book worth your time

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Heavy technological bent at the beginning sweeping from a personal view to a worldwide perspective, then splitting into many unique philosophical, moral, and practical perspectives. The parallel timelines, personal world evolution, and view of mankind's future in amazing colour and detail kept me entertained and often reflecting on the ideas and themes in the story. It felt like many stories threaded and woven beside and together without ever letting me forget a plot or character. Time jumps peppered into the story often had me refocusing on characters and changes but never lost the main plot.
Incredible read with perfect narration by Malcolm Hillgartner.

Philosophical evolution

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The usual interesting Stephenson imagination.

Fun story.

The narrator can't do an Australian accent to save his life.

decent story.

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