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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel

From best-selling 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 jetzig world.

When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons non…hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning oder Ähnlicheschain of events that will alter their lives and menschlich 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 non…xx0xx>>, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace – the world’s o. k. celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the jetzig world „jams“ the „frequencies“ used by magic, and it’s up to Tristan to find out why.

And so the Department of Diachronic Operations – D.O.D.O. – gets cracking on its wahrhaft mission: to develop a device that gegen bring magic back and Senior 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 mercurial – and treacherous – nature of the menschlich heart.

Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s work and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this exciting and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you believe in the impossible and take you to places – and times – beyond imagining.

Full cast of narrators includes Robert Tonne, James Foster, Tavia Gilbert, Arthur Morey, David Stifel, Charlie Thurston, and Bude Udall.