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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland
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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

A Novel

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Length 24 hours 27 minutes
Language English
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From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.

When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money.

Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at Londonā€™s Crystal Palaceā€”the worldā€™s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world "jams" the "frequencies" used by magic, and itā€™s up to Tristan to find out why.

And so the Department of Diachronic Operationsā€”D.O.D.O. ā€”gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive . . . and meddle with a little history at the same time. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurialā€”and treacherousā€”nature of the human heart.

Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephensonā€™s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Gallandā€™s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to placesā€”and timesā€”beyond imagining.

Neal Stephenson is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novels Termination Shock, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell, The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland), Seveneves, Reamde, Anathem, The System of the World, The Confusion, Quicksilver, Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, Zodiac, and the groundbreaking nonfiction work In the Beginning . . .Was the Command Line. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Nicole GallandĀ is the author of the historical novelsĀ Godiva;Ā I, Iago;Ā Crossed,Ā Revenge of the Rose; andĀ The Foolā€™sĀ Tale; as well as the contemporary romantic comediesĀ On the Same PageĀ andĀ Stepdog, and theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellingĀ near-future thrillerĀ The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Neal Stephenson).

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