Blackstone Audio 9781538419250 The Rise & Fall of D.O.D.O. - Audio Book

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 lowlevel 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 earthshattering 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 londons crystal palace the worlds fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce And so the department of diachronic operations dODO 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 Written with the genius complexity and innovation that characterize all of neal stephensons work and steeped with the downtoearth warmth and humor of nicole gallands 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 Features. The rise and fall of DODO a novel audiobookSpecifications. Format Digital Download CD MP3 CD. Category Fiction Science Fiction. Author Neal Stephenson. Run Time 2447. Edition English