by Ian Tregillis
I've been excited about reading this for years. There's a short story set in not-quite-the-same-world that I read and instantly wanted more of. There was such a large shift from our world contained in those few pages. I could feel the depth of potential in this divergence from our timeline. I did ...
another one of those books where I didn't realize it was the beginning of a series. It's going to be a long wait for the next one. it's the middle of The Inquisition, and Europe has discovered the Americas, but that's all that is familiar in the sci-fi, steampunk, espionage thriller. the mechan...
250 years before Ian Tregillis' stunning novel, The Mechanical, opens, Christiaan Huygens made a remarkable discovery that blended alchemy and chemistry and engineering to create sentient automatons called Clakkers. The Clakkers helped the Netherlands build an empire that spans the globe. In an alte...
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