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Each Automaton has a word which guides their actions and even creates some of their personality. I’m hoping this is because Wilson is planning on writing more books in this world he has created. I say maybe because some of the even further past events that are visited to me seem a little blurred. The story jumps back and forth between present day and the 18th century telling the tale of a “race” of beings created to maybe help mankind. Wilson in “The Clockwork Dynasty.” Okay, I’m not 100% sure he created this new genre, but, until listening to this audiobook, I had never heard of the premise. Take a little bit of Steampunk, mix it in with some mythology, maybe a hint of the Terminator, then take out the steam and use clockwork and you have yourself a new form of sci-fi created by Daniel H. Narrated by: David Giuntoli, Claire Coffee Wilson’s novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisitely drawn characters with visionary technology-and riveting action.“The Clockwork Dynasty” By Daniel H. Wilson Richly-imagined and heart-pounding, Daniel H.

As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries.

Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." -Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two " fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries-from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse.