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The Mechanical

By Ian Tregillis
The Mechanical by Ian Tregillis digital book - Fable

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From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.

My name is Jax.

That is the name granted to me by my human masters.

I am a slave.

But I shall be free.

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151 Reviews

3.5
“I wanted to like it... but here we are.”
“3.5 It was a really slow confusing start but it got better. It was to boring most of the book to read in my free time, but it was a good book to procrastinate too.”
“This was an amazing book. I had to stop myself from reading all at once. Such a good book. I enjoyed all the characters. I love it when a book makes me feel anxious for a character. I was worried for all the characters at one time in the book. Bechdel test: unsure - There had to be at some point. Hmmm.”

About Ian Tregillis

Ian Tregillis is the son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot card reader. He was born and raised in Minnesota, where his parents had landed after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story, he's told, involves a Dutch tramp steamer and a stolen horse.) Nowadays he lives in New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists and other unsavoury types.

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