Series
Richard Forthrast
Neal Stephenson · 2 novels · 2011–2019
Neal Stephenson's Richard 'Dodge' Forthrast novels open with Reamde, a globe-spanning thriller that starts when ransomware inside an MMORPG economy pulls Richard's extended family into a real-world hostage crisis involving hackers, jihadists and Russian mobsters. The sequel Fall; or, Dodge in Hell shifts registers entirely, following Richard's digitally preserved mind after death into an afterlife simulation built from his scanned brain. The two books share a protagonist and family but differ sharply in genre and scale.
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- 2010s2
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This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Fall or, Dodge in Helldarkest · calmest
- Reamdebrightest · most intense