Pinion
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The third volume in Jay Lake's Clockwork Earth series continues the story of Paolina Barthes, Emily Childress, and Boaz, the mechanical man, as each seeks control of their destiny.
Rejoin the adventure in the third novel of Lake's Clockwork Earth series. Paolina Barthes, young sorceress, is crossing the Equatorial Wall, attempting to take herself and her magic away from the grasp of powerful men in the empires of the north. Emily Childress is still aboard the renegade Chinese submarine, along with her devoted Captain, and the British chief petty officer Angus al-Wazir. They are all being sought most urgently by the powers that secretly rule the Northern Earth--the Silent Order and the White Birds. And a third power, of the Southern Earth, has its eye on Paolina; she will not be allowed to bring the political turmoil of the North into the more mystical South.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Political conflicts and philosophical arguments find closure at last in this splendidly baroque whirl of geomancy and Victorian clockwork. Young Paolina Barthes, the gear-minded prodigy who became a target for the empire-building ambitions of rival governments in 2009's Escapement, is on the run, heading south over the Wall that God built to divide the hemispheres and keep the Earth's gear turning through the heavens. As spies and ancient secret societies scramble to find her, Paolina struggles to learn how to control her world-shaking abilities, while her heart pulls her toward Boaz, a golemlike man of brass. Lake wields big themes magic and religion versus science, free will, colonialism, and a bit of romance with surprising elegance, and readers will enjoy cherishing the characters and pondering the concepts of this clockpunk world.