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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 by Neal Stephenson. ℗ 2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

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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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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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I loved this story. My only criticism is that Mr Stephenson explores some fascinating threads briefly, but never touches them again, like Ameristan.

Loved it! Wish it was longer.

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Neal writes the kinds of books that when you read them the first time once you reach halfway you wind up staying up late and reading as you walk places so you can sprint through the finales. Then you reread them again a couple years later and find layers and richness that you missed the first time. They're the kind of books you chew on in the back of your head and perhaps dreams with all the narratives, themes and character/familial arcs.

Fantastic.

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