- Paperback: 388 pages
- Publisher: Lulu Press (April 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430329696
- ISBN-13: 978-1430329695
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 621 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,290,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The New York Times writes, "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." From one of the most original voices in imaginative nonfiction comes a stunning novel of speculation on the afterlife, immortality, and the existence of the human soul. "The Heaven Virus" is inspired by virtual universes making headlines today and offers readers a glimpse of ultimate spiritual technologies for the 22nd century and a mystic encounter in an age of electronic gods. "The Heaven Virus" blends humor, psychedelia, and hope in a meditation on the outer limits of our culture, evolutionary destiny, and inner space. This novel will draw readers who have wondered about their own passage from this existence into the world to come. Cliff Pickover is the author of forty books on science, mathematics, art, religion. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His website, Pickover.com, has received several million visits.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (9 customer reviews)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Eternity and God in a Chip?, May 8 2007
By Dennis Gordon "Dennis Gordon" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Heaven Virus (Paperback)
Imagine your fertile mind being downloaded onto a computer for all eternity and being able to enjoy all of the pleasures you loved in your previous earthly life ... and then something goes wrong. "The Heaven Virus" makes for some very lively reading and makes one wonder if Edgar Allan Poe is still actively at work in some incredible parallel universe.
Besides the lively narrative, Pickover has included some interesting philosophical discussions of issued raised along the way, a number of interesting digressions and anecdotes, plus quite a few very cool quotes from some surprising individuals. With the author's rich vocabulary, a colorful cast of characters, and lots of action, "The Heaven Virus" provides tremendous reading.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Future virtual worlds and electronic immortality, May 11 2007
By Shirley Ackerman - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Heaven Virus (Paperback)
This is a tour de force of the imagination that explodes with revelations on a plethora of subjects. It operates on many levels: it's a technical solution for immortality, it's extreme science fiction, plausible yet wild, and it's just a darn good story that keeps you intrigued from the outset. Warning: it should be R-rated for some parts that are violent, but then again, the timid can just skip over those pages.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A great mathematical novel, Oct 9 2007
By Aaron C. Brown - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Heaven Virus (Paperback)
The Heaven Virus joins The Parrot's Theorem and Iceberg Risk on the short list of first-rate novels with deep mathematical cores. While Pickover has a lot to say about reality, time, religon, language, brains and minds, these ideas whirl randomly around the one constant in the story, mathematical truth.
I undertand other reviewers' comparisons to books such as Slaughterhouse-Five, The Metamorphosis, Alice in Wonderland and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, those convey the some of the style. For my part,
The Black Cloud is closer to the mark: using up-to-the-minute science to explore what it really means to be human, and how that might change in the near future.
Read it for the story, or the speculations, or the science; but read it.
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