The Mechanical
by:
Ian Tregillis (author)
The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical...
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The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780356502328 (0356502325)
Publisher: Little Brown
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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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