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The Sisters of Saint Nicola of The Almost Perpetual Motion vs the Lurch
By Garth NixPublisher Description
A new short story from Garth Nix, best-selling author of the Old Kingdom series.
In this raucous, steampunk tale a sacred order of scientist nuns battle against vicious Invaders from Mars and their murderous machines in an ongoing conflict that has lasted centuries.
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“Short story advent utilising tordotcom free fiction 8/25.
Scientist warrior steampunk nuns fighting aliens with their druid allies. This was rad as fuck.”
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“Auf diese Kurzgeschichte hat mich Google aufmerksam gemacht und scheinbar hat der Riese meinen Lesegeschmack richtig erkannt, denn Garth Nix' Text konnte mich auf ganzer Linie überzeugen.
Steampunk hat mir schon immer sehr gut gefallen. Leider waren die meisten auf Deutsch übersetzten Bücher immer nur mittelmässig, sodass ich mich eher enttäuscht aus dem Genre verabschiedete. Nix schafft es jedoch in einer Kurzgeschichte genau all jenes zu involvieren, was mir bisher gefehlt hat.
Grossartig ausgedachte Maschinen, ein rasanter Plot und Charaktere mit denen man gerne seine Zeit verbringt. Es ist ein faszinierender Text, der auf kurze Distanz sehr viel zu bieten hat. An einigen Stellen musste ich sogar an Tolkien denken. Auch schafft es der Autor, seiner Hauptfigur genug Charakter zu verleihen, dass ich als Leserin bei der Stange blieb.
Bei vielen kürzeren Texten, die mir gefallen habe, hoffte ich stets darauf, dass es noch mehr dazu gäbe. Dies ist hier nicht der Fall, was ich aber als positive Aussage werte, denn die Geschichte ist gut genau so wie sie ist.
Auf jeden Fall hat Garth Nix bewiesen, dass er Steampunk kann.”
About Garth Nix
Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001. He has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and as a part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. His books include the award-winning young adult fantasy novels Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel, Goldenhand, and Angelmage; the dystopian novel Shade's Children; the space opera A Confusion of Princes; and a Regency romance with magic, Newt's Emerald. His fantasy novels for children include The Ragwitch; the six books of The Seventh Tower sequence; The Keys to the Kingdom series; Frogkisser!; the Troubletwisters series; Spirit Animals: Blood Ties; Have Sword, Will Travel and Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (with Sean Williams). He lives in a Sydney beach suburb with his wife and two children.
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