Fall, or Dodge in Hell
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Fall, or Dodge in Hell
19.99 €
As a young man, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded 9592 Corporation, a video game development company that made him a billionaire. Now, Dodge lives a comfortable life, managing his numerous business investments and spending time with his beloved niece and her young daughter, Sophia.
One fine autumn day, while undergoing a routine medical procedure, something goes wrong. Dodge is declared dead and placed on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends facing a difficult choice. Long ago, when Dodge was much younger, he wrote a will instructing that his body be donated to a cryonics company owned by the enigmatic entrepreneur Elmo Shepard. Despite all their doubts, Dodge's family is obligated to carry out this will. His brain is scanned, and the data structures are uploaded to the cloud for storage until a time arises to revive him. In the coming years, human genius conquers death itself. An eternal afterlife is created—Bitworld—in which people continue to exist as digital souls. But this unique new immortal world is far from paradise, as it might seem at first glance... This is a grand drama about the digital world, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this gripping epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on revolutionary breakthroughs that will transform our future. By blending the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in a single grand myth, he creates a mind-blowing literary saga for the modern era.
One fine autumn day, while undergoing a routine medical procedure, something goes wrong. Dodge is declared dead and placed on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends facing a difficult choice. Long ago, when Dodge was much younger, he wrote a will instructing that his body be donated to a cryonics company owned by the enigmatic entrepreneur Elmo Shepard. Despite all their doubts, Dodge's family is obligated to carry out this will. His brain is scanned, and the data structures are uploaded to the cloud for storage until a time arises to revive him. In the coming years, human genius conquers death itself. An eternal afterlife is created—Bitworld—in which people continue to exist as digital souls. But this unique new immortal world is far from paradise, as it might seem at first glance... This is a grand drama about the digital world, man and machine, angels and demons, gods and followers, the finite and the eternal. In this gripping epic, Neal Stephenson raises profound existential questions and touches on revolutionary breakthroughs that will transform our future. By blending the technological, philosophical, and spiritual in a single grand myth, he creates a mind-blowing literary saga for the modern era.
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