Escapement

Escapement

by JayLake (Author)

Synopsis

Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability - a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little of the world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants. And so she sets off to make her way off the Wall, not knowing that she will bring her astounding, unschooled talent for sorcery to the attention of those deadly factions who would use or kill her for it.

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 480
Edition: 1
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 02 Apr 2009

ISBN 10: 0765356376
ISBN 13: 9780765356376

Media Reviews
Lively and thought-provoking...Lake effectively anneals steampunk with geo-mechanical magic in an allegorical matrix of empire building and Victorian natural science. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Escapement
Author Bio
Jay Lake lives and works in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of over two hundred short stories, four collections, and a chapbook, along with several novels. In 2004, Jay won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.