The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel
From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial 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...
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From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial 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, acciden
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780062409171 (0062409174)
Pages no: 768
Edition language: English
After discovering why magic died out in 1951, governments all over the world are trying to bring it back to their own advantage. Not to be left behind, the American government gets together a rag tag bunch of people to work on the problem. They succeed but find out that manipulating time isn't as ea...
Series: N/A Publisher: William Morrow (2017) Genre(s): Science Fiction, Fantasy Could have been great, but it lacked focus in a big way. We were explained all the science but not the magic. Also, I felt like I was reading the notes of the entire backstory. There are things that don't need to be th...
This book started out great. I'm not normally one for time travel, but this had a bit of magic and mystery and seemed to work. The characters were well written and funny and the story flowed. Flowed untill part 3. I think over 200 pages of memos, emails and other such stuff took away from the book a...
This was the most fun I've had with an arc so far, and I had initially given it full marks despite some wavering issues I had with the pacing, but then a reviewer brought up some troubling gender problems, that when lined up like that are hard to deny. I still really liked it, but some things can't ...