The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Clocking in at over 700 pages, the book is entirely composed of correspondence: letters, chat logs and redacted government documents. This unusual format allows the authors to create distinct voices for endearing characters, defining them without getting bogged down in backstory, and making more room to explore relationships and describe, in painstaking detail, the 'science' of magic and time travel. Better yet, Melisande trades one bureaucracy for another to prescient and hilarious effect. There’s a lot going on here — stylistic flourishes, comedic pratfalls, romance and science — but it’s handled deftly. Those familiar with Stephenson will recognize his humor and ideas, while Galland brings a fresh and irresistible voice to this ambitious novel..
Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland devise a premise that feels both familiar and fresh, mixing magic and science to pleasurable effect.
Luckily, the first 500 pages (!) are smart, hilarious, and bewitching enough to make up for a disappointing final third.
Real-world physicists talk about time travel as something theoretically possible but practically unachievable; Stephenson and Galland undertake things in this novel that are theoretically funny without ever making you laugh.
...the authors spin a complex and engaging what-if tale that blends technology and history. Ready-made for fans of intricate speculative fiction..
[An] immense and immensely entertaining genre-hopping yarn.
Quantum physics, witchcraft, and multiple groups with conflicting agendas, playfully mixed with vernacular from several centuries and a dizzying number of acronyms, create a fascinating experiment in speculation and metafiction that never loses sight of the human foibles and affections of its cast..