
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
A Novel
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Narrateur(s):
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Malcolm Hillgartner
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Auteur(s):
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Neal Stephenson
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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 reservedKeeps adding to his world.
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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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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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Best yet
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Stephenson's take on the theory of knowledge, id
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Amazing at times, goes on too long
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Stephenson spins another great story
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Overall a book worth your time
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Incredible read with perfect narration by Malcolm Hillgartner.
Philosophical evolution
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Fun story.
The narrator can't do an Australian accent to save his life.
decent story.
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