First published 2019
Richard "Dodge" Forthrast built Corporation 9592 into a gaming empire that made him billions. Now middle-aged, he enjoys his wealth and time with his niece Zula and her daughter Sophia. During a routine medical procedure, something goes wrong. Dodge flatlines and doctors declare him brain dead. Years earlier, Dodge wrote instructions in his will to donate his body to a cryonics company owned by tech mogul Elmo Shepherd. His family reluctantly follows his wishes. Scientists scan Dodge's brain and upload its data to cloud storage. Technology eventually advances enough to reactivate his digital consciousness. Dodge awakens in the Bitworld, a virtual afterlife where human souls exist as code. This digital realm becomes a new frontier where the dead continue living. But immortality in cyberspace brings unexpected challenges. The Bitworld develops its own conflicts between digital gods and followers, creating a mythology that mirrors ancient stories of paradise and hell.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, 21st-century, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, cryonics
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, immortality
Setting: Corporation 9592, Bitworld
Period: Middle Age
883 pages · Hardcover · William Morrow