02396cam a2200445 4500 1297893936 TxAuBib 20190415120000.0 161104s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016043352 9780062409164 trade : alk. paper 0062409166 trade : alk. paper 9780062409157 pbk. 0062409158 pbk. DLC eng DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Stephenson, Neal. The rise and fall of D.O.D.O / Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland. Rise & fall of DODO. 1st ed. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] 752 p. ; 24 cm. Booklist starred, May 2017. Publisher's Weekly, May 2017. Kirkus Starred, May 2017. Booklist starred. Publisher's Weekly. Kirkus Starred. "Boston, present day. A young man from a shadowy government agency shows up at an Ivy League university and offers an eminent professor a lot of money to study a trove of recently discovered old documents... The professor refuses and tells the young man to get lost. On his way out, he bumps into a young woman--a low-on-the-totem-pole adjunct faculty member who's more than happy to sign the NDA and earn a few bucks. The documents ... prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for much of human history. But its effectiveness began to wane around the time of the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment; it stopped working altogether in 1851... And so the shadowy government agency--the Department of Diachronic Operations, or DODO--gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that is shielded from whatever it is that interferes with magic and thus send Diachronic Operatives back in time to meddle with history"--Provided by publisher. Adult Follett Library Resources. Adult. 20190415. Magic Fiction. Technology Fiction. Intelligence officers Fiction. FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary. Fantasy fiction. Science fiction. Time-travel fiction. Galland, Nicole.