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

You think you understand the way the world works? Reconsider.

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller that questions the foundations of the modern world.

1851 England

The Great Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace has opened, celebrating the rise of technology and commerce. With it the energy of magic – in decline since the commercial about The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. revolution started – is completely snuffed out. The existence of magic starts its continuous devolution into simple myth.

21st Century America

Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics professional at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of federal government, leads to the uncovering of a distant past.

After translating a series of ancient texts, Melisande and Tristan discover the connection between science, magic and time travel so the Department of Diachronic Operations – D.O.D.O. – is certainly hastily brought into existence. Its mission: to develop a device that will send their agents back to days gone by, where they are able to stop magic from disappearing and alter the course of history.

However when you hinder the past, there’s no telling everything you will dsicover in your future…

Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize most of Neal Stephenson’s function and steeped with the down-to-earth warmth and humour of Nicole Galland’s storytelling design, this thrilling and vividly realized function of science fiction will make you genuinely believe in the impossible, and take you to spots – and times – beyond imagining.