Fall or Dodge in hell
Stephenson, Neal
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"While [Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast] undergoes a routine medical procedure
something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead and put on life support ... Long ago
when a much younger Dodge drew up his will
he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company ... 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 ... In the coming years
technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on ... 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"--Publisher marketing.
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