![]() Badass Bookworm: Mortimer is an MIT student and a tech whiz as well as a historical fencer who trains field agents how to win real sword fights. ![]() Author Appeal: There's a significant subplot about learning historical fencing, which is a passion of co-author Neal Stephenson.When asked how they can get information across time and strands, one Fugger only says he can't reveal all his secrets. Always Female: Only witches can do magic, though it's vaguely implied that the Fugger clan have some ability to perceive the time-travel shenanigans, and we only see male examples of the family.(the Department of Diachronic Operations), and spun into a Running Gag, despite Beleaguered Bureaucrat Macy Stoll's attempts to institute a Policy On Official Jargon and Acronym Coinage (POOJAC), which is quickly amended to the Jargon and Acronym Policy and then, after a talk with the Japanese Professor Oda, is further amended to Acronym and Jargon Policy. Acronym and Abbreviation Overload: A tradition started early on at D.O.D.O.Through letters, chat logs, and the "diachronicle" written by the main protagonist, we chart the organization's discovery of magic, its development of an alphabet soup of acronyms, and its conflicts with stubbornly independent witches, creeping bureaucratic dysfunction, and an ancient banking family concerned about the effects changing history might have on the derivatives market. is a novel by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland about a secret government organization investigating time travel. ![]()
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