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Fall; or, Dodge in hell : a novel

Title

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

Author

Stephenson, Neal

Publication

New York, NY : William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019

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Description

883 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"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..."--provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

Dodge in hell

Subjects

Genre/Form

Science fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.
Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Cyberpunk fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Novels.

Note

Map on back endpages.

Call Number

JFE 19-7054

ISBN

9780062458711
006245871X
9780062458728
0062458728
9781460752128
1460752120

LCCN

2019002947

OCLC

1085577389

Author

Stephenson, Neal, author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York, NY : William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFE 19-7054

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