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Fall [sound recording] ; or, Dodge in hell : a novel / by Stephenson, Neal,author.; Hillgartner, Malcolm,narrator.; Brilliance Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.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, Dodge's 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, technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself, and the beginning of a new world, an eternal afterlife-- called 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.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Audiobooks.; Immortality; Cryonics; Low temperature engineering;
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Fall ; or, Dodge in hell : a novel / by Stephenson, Neal,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."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, Dodge's 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, technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on. It is an achievement that is nothing less than the disruption of death itself, and the beginning of a new world, an eternal afterlife-- called 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 ..."-- Dust jacket flap.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Immortality; Cryonics; Low temperature engineering;
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Redcoat. [graphic novel] / by Johns, Geoff,1973-author,creator.; Anderson, Brad,colourist.; Currie, Andrew(Illustrator),illustrator.; Hitch, Bryan,illustrator,creator.; Leigh, Rob,letterer.;
British redcoat and all-around rogue, Simon mysteriously became immortal in 1776 after a run-in with the clandestine cabal known as The Founding Fathers, which included George Washington, John Hancock, and many other prominent American Revolutionary War leaders. Since that fateful day, Simon has led a life of adventure and avarice, rubbing elbows (and sometimes fists) with many of history's most renowned figures including Benedict Arnold, Albert Einstein, Annie Oakley and many more. But what are the true origins and extents of Simon's power and the mysterious cult behind them? And how has it secretly shaped America and the world? Simon's on a quest to find out!Rated T+/teen plus.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Graphic novels.; Adventure and adventurers; Immortalism;
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Halcyon : a novel / by Ackerman, Elliot,author.;
"From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does America's fate hang in the balance? Stretching from Civil War battles to the toppling of Confederate monuments, from scholarly debates to intimate family secrets, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on layers of memory and forgetting"--
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); Political fiction.; Novels.; Immortalism;
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NOS4A2. [videorecording] / by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson,actor.; Cummings, Ashleigh,1992-actor.; Moss-Bachrach, Ebon,actor.; Quinto, Zachary,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Hill, Joe.NOS4A2.; Smith, Jahkara,actor.; American Movie Classics Company,production company,broadcaster.; RLJ Entertainment,distributor.;
Ashleigh Cummings, Zachary Quinto, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Jahkara Smith, Ebon Moss-Bachrach.Eight years after they finally faced off for the first time, Vic McQueen remains more determined than ever to destroy Charlie Manx. Charlie, having faced his own mortality, emerges desperate for revenge against Vic. This time, he sets his sights on the person who means most to Vic - her eight-year-old son Wayne. The race for Wayne's soul sends Vic and Charlie on a high-speed collision course, forcing both to confront the mistakes of their pasts in order to secure a hold on Wayne's future.14A.Closed-captioned for the hearing impared.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror television programs.; Television programs.; Vampire television programs.; Divination; Immortality; Missing children; Supernatural; Vampires; Soul;
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Eternal you [videorecording] / by Block, Hans,1985-film director.; Riesewieck, Moritz,1985-film director.; Film Movement (Firm),film distributor.;
What if you never had to say goodbye to a loved one? What if death and grief were concerns of the past? Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck pose these questions and more while examining one of the latest major breakthroughs in Al technology, open language models that enable realistic conversations with virtual reality avatars built using characteristics of the deceased. In essence, bringing the dead to digital life. Through interviews with end users, tech experts, journalists, programmers and psychologists, a broad and analytical account unfolds to reveal the far-reaching and often disturbing implications of this new technology.E.Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.DVD ; wide screen presentation ; 5.1 surround sound, 2.0 stereophonic.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Artificial intelligence.; Avatars (Virtual reality); Grief.; Human-computer interaction.; Immortality.;
For private home use only.
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The flight : Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing / by Hampton, Dan,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augusutus), 1902-1974.; Spirit of St. Louis (Airplane); Transatlantic flights.; Aeronautics; Air pilots;
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Interview with the vampire. [videorecording] / by Akin, Levan,1979-television director.; Anderson, Jacob,1990-actor.; Bass, Bailey,actor.; Ostrander, Alexis,television director.; Patton, Jen Kelly,television director.; Powell, Keith,1979-television director.; Reid, Sam,1987-actor.; Taylor, Alan,1965-television director.; television adaptation of (work):Rice, Anne,1941-2021.Interview with the vampire.; RLJ Entertainment,publisher.;
Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, Eric Bogosian, Asaad Zaman.In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Horror television programs.; Television programs.; Vampire television programs.; Lestat (Vampire), 1760-; Immortality; Love; Vampires; Male friendship; Families;
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Interview with the vampire. [videorecording] / by Akin, Levan,1979-television director.; Anderson, Jacob,1990-actor.; Bass, Bailey,actor.; Ostrander, Alexis,television director.; Patton, Jen Kelly,television director.; Powell, Keith,1979-television director.; Reid, Sam,1987-actor.; Taylor, Alan,1965-television director.; television adaptation of (work):Rice, Anne,1941-2021.Interview with the vampire.; RLJ Entertainment,publisher.;
Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, Eric Bogosian, Asaad Zaman.Originally broadcast as single episodes of a television program in 2024.Daniel Molloy continues interviewing the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac. Following an attempt to kill Lestat, Louis and Claudia seek others of their kind in Europe, finding in Post WWII Paris the Vampire Armand and his Theatre des Vampires coven.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Vampire television programs.; Horror television programs.; Television programs.; Lestat (Vampire), 1760-; Immortality; Love; Vampires; Male friendship; Families;
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Why we die : the new science of aging and the quest for immortality / by Ramakrishnan, Venki,1952-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we age and die-from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan"--
Subjects: Death (Biology); Death; Death.;
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