Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

The #1 NY Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns having a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller—Paradise Lost by method of Phillip 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. Today in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, handling his myriad business passions, and about Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel spending time along with his favorite niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia.

One beautiful autumn day, even though he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something runs irrevocably wrong. Dodge is certainly pronounced brain inactive and placed on life support, leaving his stunned family and close friends with tough decisions. Way back when, when a very much youthful Dodge drew up his will, he aimed that his body be given to a cryonics company now owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd. Legally bound to check out the directive despite their misgivings, Dodge’s family members has his human brain scanned and its own data structures uploaded and kept in the cloud, until it can eventually become revived.

In the coming years, technology allows Dodge’s brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that’s nothing significantly less than the disruption of death itself. An eternal afterlife—the Bitworld—is established, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls.

But this daring new immortal globe is not the Utopia it could first seem .

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell can be natural, unadulterated fun: a grand dilemma of analog and digital, guy and machine, angels and demons, gods and supporters, the finite as well as the eternal. In this exhilarating epic, Neal Stephenson boosts profound existential questions and details on the brand new breakthroughs that are changing our future. Combining the technological, philosophical, and religious in a single grand myth, he delivers a mind-blowing speculative literary saga for the present day age.