D.O.D.O.

Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland

When linguist Melisande Stokes is recruited into a clandestine government initiative, she discovers that magic once existed—and that its disappearance may be linked to the rise of modern science. Working with an eccentric team of soldiers, programmers, historians, and occult specialists, she is drawn into a dangerous effort to travel through time and restore humanity’s lost access to the impossible. Spanning centuries and blending historical adventure, speculative science fiction, and workplace satire, the novel explores the tensions between magic and reason, fate and free will, and individual ambition and institutional power. Told through a lively collage of documents, diaries, reports, and firsthand accounts, it offers an inventive, fast-moving vision of history rewritten from the shadows.