The Rise and Fall of D.o.d.o.

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Call Number: Science Fiction / Stephenson, Neal
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"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.

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Time Travel Science and Magic Adventure submitted by Zac Johnson on July 31, 2019, 12:35pm A linguist is pulled from her unfulfilling academic life to dive into a black-ops government agency to save magic, travel through time, explore ancient martial arts, code in red hat internet protocols, learn WAY too much about corsets, watch Wikipedia entries and history books change before her eyes, witness hilarious Viking sex, visit the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, and generally upend the space-time continuum.
Incredibly, the science of magic and time travel are both given startlingly believable explanations and the story is told via quill-and-ink parchments, diary entries, government requisition forms and Slack Channel messages.