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Fall : or, Dodge in hell : a novel / Neal Stephenson.

Fall : or, Dodge in hell : a novel / Neal Stephenson.
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ISBN 9780062458711 (hardback)
9780062458728 (paperback)
Classification F STEP
Personal Name Stephenson, Neal
Title Fall : or, Dodge in hell : a novel / Neal Stephenson.
Portion of title Dodge in hell
Edition First edition.
Production & Copyright Details New York, NY : William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019
Physical Description 883 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Summary Note 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
Subject - Topical Term Billionaires -- Fiction
Cryonics -- Fiction
Time travel -- Fiction.
Technology -- Fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre US & CAN science fiction
Subject - Genre Science fiction
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