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04225aim a22005775a 4500 001 6E19526AB0D511E8923D894D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180905010705 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 180615s2017 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 0062676989 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062676986 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT11876849 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Stephenson, Neal, $e author. 245 14 $a The rise and fall of D.O.D.O. : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Harper Collins Publishers, $c 2017. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (24hr., 28 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by [Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merlington, Joe Barrett, Will Damron, Luke Daniels, Robert Fass, James Foster, Tavia Gilbert, Arthur Morey, David Stifel, Charlie Thurston, and Kate Udall]. 520 $a 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. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Technology $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Magic $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Time travel $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 gsafd 655 7 $a Fantasy fiction. $2 gsafd 700 1 $a Galland, Nicole, $e author. 700 1 $a Bouvard, Laurence, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Atkinson, Shelley, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Merlington, Laural, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Barrett, Joe, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Damron, Will, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Daniels, Luke, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Fass, Robert, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Foster, James, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Gilbert, Tavia, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Morey, Arthur, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Stifel, David, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Thurston, Charlie, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Udall, Kate, $e narrator. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11876849 $y Instantly available on hoopla. $z Instantly available on hoopla. $3 URL 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062676986_180.jpeg $y Cover image $3 URL 941 $a 1 952 $l XBPE737 $d 20180905060809.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6E19526AB0D511E8923D894D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search