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The Heaven Virus [Paperback]

Clifford Pickover (Author)
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April 11, 2007
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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  • Paperback: 388 pages
  • Publisher: Lulu.com (April 11, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430329696
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430329695
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,070,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Clifford A. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is the author of over 30 books on such topics as computers and creativity, art, mathematics, black holes, religion, human behavior and intelligence, time travel, alien life, and science fiction.

Pickover is a prolific inventor with dozens of patents, is the associate editor for several journals, the author of colorful puzzle calendars, and puzzle contributor to magazines geared to children and adults.

WIRED magazine writes, "Bucky Fuller thought big, Arthur C. Clarke thinks big, but Cliff Pickover outdoes them both." According to The Los Angeles Times, "Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limits of computers, art and thought."
The Christian Science Monitor writes, "Pickover inspires a new generation of da Vincis to build unknown flying machines and create new Mona Lisas." Pickover's computer graphics have been featured on the cover of many popular magazines and on TV shows.

His web site, Pickover.Com, has received millions of visits. His Blog RealityCarnival.Com is one of his most popular sites.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Eternity and God in a Chip?, May 8, 2007
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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.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Future virtual worlds and electronic immortality, May 11, 2007
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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.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great mathematical novel, October 9, 2007
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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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