The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and modern business novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and organic near-future thriller merging history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and experience that questions the foundations of today’s world.

When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidently matches military intelligence operator Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain approximately The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Book of events that may alter their lives and human history itself. The son from a shadowy authorities entity techniques Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The just condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in substitution for the rather large amount of cash.

Tristan requirements Mel to translate some very aged paperwork, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They show that magic actually been around and was used for centuries. But the arrival from the technological revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its professionals. Magic stopped working entirely in 1851, during the Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace-the world’s fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and business. Something about today’s world ‘jams’ the ‘frequencies’ utilized 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 actual mission: to develop a tool that can bring magic back, and send Diachronic Operatives back in time to maintain it alive . and meddle with a little background at exactly the same time. But while Tristan and his growing operation professional the research and build the technology, they forget the mercurial-and treacherous-nature from the human heart.

Written using the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson’s function and steeped using the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this thrilling and vividly realized work of science fiction will make you genuinely believe in the impossible, and consider you to places-and times-beyond imagining.