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

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and modern business novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and organic near-future thriller that queries the foundations of today’s world.

1851 England

THE FANTASTIC Exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace has opened, celebrating the rise of technology and commerce. With it the energy of magic – in decrease since the commercial about The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. revolution started – is completely snuffed out. The lifetime of magic begins its steady devolution into mere myth.

21st Century America

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

After translating some ancient texts, Melisande and Tristan uncover the connection between science, magic and time travel so the Section of Diachronic Procedures – D.O.D.O. – is definitely hastily brought into lifestyle. Its objective: to build up a device that may send their agents back to the past, where they are able to stop magic from disappearing and alter the course of history.

But when you hinder the past, there is no telling what you will dsicover in your future…

Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize most of Neal Stephenson’s function and steeped using the down-to-earth warmth and humour of Nicole Galland’s storytelling style, this thrilling and vividly noticed work of science fiction can make you believe in the impossible, and consider you to places – and situations – beyond imagining.