A Novel
by Neal Stephenson
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“There is a terrifying @nealstephenson book, Fall, that looks at a post factual world. It was scary because it was prescient of what we’re seeing.”
Source →Recommended by 3 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and David Deutsch
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See customer reviews on Amazon →This reads as a sprawling, idea-heavy science fiction ride that opens as a near-future corporate-tech thriller and then shifts into an extended virtual-afterlife fable. Its useful part is imaginative scale: bold set pieces, provocative questions about mind-uploading and digital legacy, and dense worldbuilding that lingers in the reader's head. Its chief limitation is bloat—long digressions, repeated themes, and uneven pacing that turn scenes into extended essays. Treat it as a long haul: rewards for patience, frustration for those who want tight plotting.
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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 Philip 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 hi...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Most Recommended Books, and Science Fiction.
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“There is a terrifying @nealstephenson book, Fall, that looks at a post factual world. It was scary because it was prescient of what we’re seeing.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 10 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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