Fall
0008168822
9780008168827
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From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVESStaggering New York TimesCaptivating Washington PostCutting-edge BooklistEpic KirkusMind-blowing SlateGripping The WeekWhen gaming billionaire Richard Dodge Forthrast is pronounced brain dead following a routine medical procedure, his family and close friends are left stunned, devastated, and forced to make difficult decisions.Dodges will asks that his body be given to a cryonics company, owned by enigmatic tech entrepreneur Elmo Shepherd, whose business practices give Dodges family understandable cause for concern. But when Dodge wrote his will he didnt anticipate that one day hed be declared brain dead. He also didnt anticipate his brain being turned on again. Years later, an astounding achievement in technology will allow the human race to defy death itself, giving birth to the Bitworld, an eternal afterlife. But this imagined state of perfection is not all that it appears to be A grand drama of man and machine, Fall, or Dodge in Hell is a mind-blowing literary saga for the modern age.