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Neal Stephenson: Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (2020, William Morrow Paperbacks) 4 stars

Unnecessarily long even for Stephenson

4 stars

It has so many awesome premises, explored interesting topics. Misinformation, Biblical Belt, cryogenics, cloud computing and a lot of other things looked at from a different angle: everything we love Stephenson for. But it was way too long, and the second half felt quite forced. Stephenson’s books always have their slower parts and what fills like a filler, but this one was unnecessarily over-packed on that regard even by his standards.