The Eternal Machine
by Carol Ryles
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Pub Date 4 Jan 2022 | Archive Date 15 Jan 2022
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Description
A woman with the strength to rebel.
A shapeshifter who wears the souls of the dead.
Together, they face a lethal enemy.
Em helped create it. Now she must craft its defeat.
In a city owned by industrialists, Em sells her magic to make ends meet. The extraction procedure is brutal and potentially deadly. Desperate for change, she joins an underground resistance movement to weaponize her magic and stop the abuse of workers.
Meanwhile, a mysterious voice wakes Ruk from a decades long slumber and compels him to become human. He wants to break free but is torn between his shapeshifter instincts and the needs of the soul that sustains him.
On streets haunted by outcasts and predatory automatons, a new danger emerges – an ever-growing corruption of magic and science. Em and Ruk must put aside their differences and pursue it – each for their own reasons.
What they discover will forever change their lives…
Or end them.
The Eternal Machine is set in a 19th Century alternative reality Australian city, where magic and science are equally valid disciplines.
Advance Praise
"..nicely sensory, gritty, darkly colourful… an apparently real world from the first sentences, and I very soon got caught up in it… the novel’s tone, characters, and themes make it apparent that Ryles takes the genre as seriously as the best steampunk writers take it…
JAMES P BLAYLOCK
Available Editions
| ISBN | 9780645340204 |
| PRICE | US$4.99 (USD) |
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