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The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Adventure Where Magic, Time Travel, and History Collide Paperback - 2018
by Stephenson, Neal; Galland, Nicole
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- Title The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Adventure Where Magic, Time Travel, and History Collide
- Author Stephenson, Neal; Galland, Nicole
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 768
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow Paperbacks
- Publication date 2018-04-17
- Features Unabridged
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0062409158-7-1-13
- ISBN 9780062409157 / 0062409158
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.5 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.81 cm)
- Age range 13 to 17 years
- Grade levels 8 - 12
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Themes
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Category Fiction - Science Fiction
- Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Magic
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016051782
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
- Quantity available 1
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From the rear cover
When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently meets military intelligence operative 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 swear herself to secrecy 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 Operatives--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. But while Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial--and treacherous--nature of the human heart.
