The Fortunate Fall

Name: The Fortunate Fall
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Cameron Reed
ISBN: 9781666669008

Author: Cameron Reed, Jo Walton

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 10 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 08/13/2024

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Political

Synopsis

A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. On its first publication in 1996, The Fortunate Fall was hailed as a sci-fi novel of a wired future on par with the debuts of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Now it returns to print, in advance of forthcoming new work by the same author. It is one of the great underground classics of the last several decades in science fiction. Maya Andreyeva is a camera, a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world… and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal—of your lover, your ideals, and yourself. This new Tor Essentials edition of The Fortunate Fall includes a new introduction by Jo Walton, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.

About Cameron Reed

Cameron Reed is a science fiction writer and the winner of the 1998 Otherwise Award (then the James Tiptree, Jr. Award). She is an avid dragonfly-watcher, a moderately skilled insect photographer, and a hopeless birder. After a long and complicated path through gender, she has come to rest as a nonbinary trans woman and uses the pronouns she or they. She lives with her found family in an old duplex full of books and cats.

About Frankie Corzo

Frankie Corzo is an experienced narrator and actress who spent her childhood performing in theater productions, commercials, films, and voiceovers. Born to Cuban immigrant parents, she narrates and acts in both Spanish and English. Her work has been added to numerous best of lists, including Audible's for 2017 and 2018. Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently splits her time between New York and Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on September 28, 2015

I don't believe it. I just realized that I haven't updated my top ten book list in my own mind for almost a decade. I certainly haven't modified my top three in over 25 years. What I have just read has just supplanted number three. Perhaps even number two. For the moment, I feel like it might have supp......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on August 03, 2024

3.5 Stars I appreciate that Tor keeps republishing out-of-print books under the Tor Essentials. This is one where I really liked the premise. Published back in 1996, I love that the author really predicted the vloggers of today. The story was fairly well paced with some exciting intrigue and action.......more

Goodreads review by Kyle on May 06, 2016

I was really interested when I found out this was the only book (apparently a catharsis novel) by a writer who emerged fully formed, became a cult-classic on some small level, and never wrote again. And it turns out for good reason. The tone reminds me a bit of Gibson, but really this is closer Neal......more

Goodreads review by Oleksandr on August 04, 2019

This is a cyberpunk SF novel, which while hasn’t got a serious attention when it was published (1996), now has an almost cult following. Additionally this is a debut novel and the author hasn’t published anything long (there was one short story) since. Maya Tatyanichna Andreyava is a camera. This mea......more

Goodreads review by Boden on September 28, 2015

Found this review lost in one of my laptop folders. I'm not bothering to clean it up, but wanted to copy it here for safe keeping.: ... Which brings us to one of those faraway shining stars, Raphael Carter’s 1996 novel, The Fortunate Fall. ["The whale, the traitor; the note she left me and the run-i......more

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“This highly literate, grim and gripping example of latter-day cyberpunk counts as one of the most promising SF debuts in recent years.”