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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 Phillip K. Dickthat 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, Dodges 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, technolo

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Author

Neal Stephenson, Malcolm Hillgartner

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062458728

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction