The rise and fall of D.O.D.O. : a novel / Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 752 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062409164
- 0062409166
- 9780062409157
- 0062409158
- 9780062695864
- 006269586X
- Rise and fall of Department of Diachronic Operations
- 813/.6 23
- PS3569.T3868 R57 2017
- FIC009010
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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BOOK | Harrison Memorial Library FICTION | Adult Fiction | STEPHENSON N (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 04/30/2024 | 31624003820446 |
"A novel"--Jacket.
"When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidentally 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 London's Crystal Palace--the world's fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern 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 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."-- From the publisher.
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