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From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed 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 modern world.
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 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. 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 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.
- Sales Rank: #1785 in Books
- Brand: MORROW
- Published on: 2017-06-13
- Released on: 2017-06-13
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.94" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 768 pages
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About the Author
Neal Stephenson is the author of Reamde, Anathem, and the three-volume historical epic the Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Nicole Galland's five previous novels are The Fool's Tale; Revenge of the Rose; Crossed; I, Iago, and Godiva. She writes a cheeky etiquette column for the Martha's Vineyard Times. She is married to actor Billy Meleady and owns Leuco, a dog of splendid qualities.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
How to Out-Byzantine Byzantium
By DrPat
Melisande and Tristan are unlikely partners in a high-tech startup. Mel is academe, Tristan military. Mel speaks and reads dozens of—maybe a hundred—ancient languages, Tristan is fluent in the one languge she is not: bureaucratese. But Mel can't stand her current academic mentor, a sleezy fellow who takes credit for her work and makes unwanted sexual overtures to his protégée. She says yes to a high salary with benefits, and launches into the effort to help develop a new technology with military applications: Magic.
Usually, I need at least two complete read-throughs of a Neal Stephenson novel, with some intervening months to absorb the revealed technology. Not this time. What Neal and co-author Nicole Galland have done is to examine the real-life implications of successful time travel (or "diachronic operations", the second "D.O." of the secret Department's title), while they simultaneously expose and lampoon the inevitable bureacratic takeover of a technical endeavor.
Even without the ancient tongues that bring Melisande into the Department, the language is dizzyingly, deliciously convoluted. Military acronyms and bureaucratic double-speak abound. My favorite passage involved the attempt of a rigid office-manager boffin to prevent the techies from using unsanctioned acronyms and labels. (The techies promptly labeled her policy memo with an unsanctioned acronym, of course.)
Perhaps the story's accessibility is due to the combination of Stephenson's favored 'Innis mode' with a mixture of narration and epistolary delivery, particularly suitable to a novel in which time travel has scrambled the chronology. Some of those epistles are email, some are hand-scribed letters and journals written on parchment—some are even carved into living flesh. (Further detail might be a spoiler!)
On the other hand, as I read I found myself uncomfortably reminded of my experiences in the late 80s and early 90s, working for a tech firm started by engineers. At the time I signed on, the founders were still in the top management positions, and we had a one-of-a-kind product in a brand-new tech niche. I was there when a venture capital firm bought out the company, still there when they "retired" the founder CEO and replaced him with a business-type. I left when the engineer-COO and engineer-R&D chief were also replaced by MBAs. (The firm was out of business a year later.)
No doubt that personal history added to my enjoyment of the eventual "fall" implied in the novel's title. But you need not have had a similar traumatic experience; D.O.D.O. is a great story, and you won't want to miss it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Pointy Hats and Schroedinger's Cat
By Patrick Shepherd
This book is a hard left turn away from the hard science of Seveneves and a return to the sharp satirical fun of Snow Crash.
Magic is dead, dealt a final death blow by the first photographs of the 1851 eclipse. All except for one very old witch and a new way to perform Schroedinger's famous cat experiment (uh, yes, there is some real science in this book, but the Multiverse interpretation of quantum mechanics is merely the background explanation for the book's scenarios).
The book careens through 1600 England (shades of the Baroque cycle, and Shakespeare comes in for some hard digs), 1200 Constantinople, the 1851 London Exposition, 1850 San Francisco, and most importantly current time military-industrial-Silicon Valley startup organization/culture (ISO 9000 strictures as applied to witches? A literal LOL!). All very much fun.
There is not a great deal of character development or robustness; the cast, while quite varied, are pretty much set-pieces to advance the plot. While most of the settings/action points are admirably suited to Stephenson's style of barbed exposition, I did find the Viking raid on a WalMart very flat, not in keeping with the rest, and the books conclusion not nearly as much of a bang-up as I expected. Stephenson does use multiple styles of presentation within this, from diaries to Power Point presentations, which I found added definite flavor tangs to the basic story. If you are reading this on Kindle, I found using the green setting helps a lot in keeping the text easily readable.
A fun romp, a very enjoyable read.
---Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)
59 of 67 people found the following review helpful.
Doesn't geek out enough for me
By W. Little
I have really enjoyed many of Neal Stephenson's work. For me, there has a been a movement recently away from his hard core impulses: away from the highly detailed technical descriptions which he coupled to swashbuckling adventures through the world those technical descriptions created; instead, there has a been a shift towards taming the geekyness and more of a kind of fun, more accessible approach to telling the stories. Reamde is a good example of this. Seveneves reversed the trend, except for the epilogue, which was really disappointing for me.
This book is more aligned with Reamde and the epilogue of Seveneves than it is with Anathem or the Baroque cycle. I found it more chatty, fun, more superficial, and probably more accessible than a lot of Neal’s work. I much prefer the level of geekyness that went into Anathem than Reamde, and I think readers will split on this book depending on how much they like Neal’s more pedantic work. I found this book fun, but not as fulfilling as Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque cycle, or the main body of Seveneves. I feel a bit of regret having purchased this for almost 20 dollars instead of waiting for the kindle price to come down.
As someone else said more succinctly – not his worst, not his best. I should probably address the fact that this is a collaborative work, but I do not know the other author at all, except in as much as I was a little irritated and distracted by how much the voice in the writing wasn’t Neal’s voice, so perhaps it is helpful to reiterate that what you are getting here is not a book that hard core fans of Neal’s descriptions and character building will love.
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