02294nam a22003371i 4500 OSt 20200609160605.0 200609t20192019enka|||gr|||| 000 f eng d 9780008168834 RM 69.90 paperback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 813.54 813.54 STE G Stephenson, Neal, author. FALL OR, DODGE IN HELL / NEAL STEPHENSON Dodge in Hell Paperback edition. London : The Borough Press, 2019. ©2019 883 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019. 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. Immortality Fiction. Cryonics Fiction. Low temperature engineering Fiction. lcgft Science fiction. lcgft Action and adventure fiction. ddc B 177536 177536 0 0 PPAK G 2020-06-18 1 813.54 STE A01644153 2020-09-03 00:00:00 2020-08-13 B 0 0 SP G 2020-06-18 813.54 STE A01644154 2020-06-18 00:00:00 B 0 0 KM G 2020-06-18 3 1 813.54 STE A01644155 2021-11-15 00:00:00 2021-04-21 B