The Fortunate Fall

By Cameron Reed (writing as Raphael Carter),

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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

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Why I loved this book is less important than how much I loved this book. I savored it as I devoured it until I finally reached the conclusion, and the mystery that the protagonist, a cybernetically-embedded reporter, had been chasing was laid to rest. 

Then I did something I’d never done before… nor done since. I immediately turned back to Page 1 and read the book again, now that I could appreciate the full import of all that had transpired in its pages—the complexity of Cameron’s imagined world, the implications of the terrifying technology that underlay it, the intricacies of…

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