It made him rich, and provoked a kidnap/terrorism Russian-mafia storyline too intricate to summarise here. In Reamde, games developer Richard “Dodge” Forthrast developed an immersive virtual reality MMORPG – a massively multiplayer online role-playing game – called T’Rain. And the bonus here: Fall is the best thing he’s written in ages. A typical Stephenson novel will contain enough plot for two or three regular-sized books, and enough thought-provoking ideas for four or five. You certainly can’t fault him when it comes to giving readers value for money, and not just in terms of pages. Reamde, from 2011, to which Fall is a sequel, is 1,044 pages long, and his multi-award-winning three-part Baroque Cycle (2003-04) runs to 2,671 pages. A t a paltry 883 pages, Fall or, Dodge in Hell is short by Neal Stephenson’s standards.
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