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The rise and fall of D.O.D.O. : a novel

Stephenson, Neal (author.). Galland, Nicole, (author.).

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ISBN: 9780062409157
ISBN: 0062409158
ISBN: 0062409166
ISBN: 9780062409164 (hardback)
ISBN: 0062409166 : HRD
ISBN: 9780062409164 : HRD
ISBN: 9780062409164 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0062409166 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780062409157 (paperback)
ISBN: 0062409158 (paperback)
Physical Description: 752 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2017]

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"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 only condition: the professor must sign an NDA that would preclude him from publishing his findings, should they be significant. 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, if authentic, are earth-shaking: they prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for much of human history"--