The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson

She has a special connection to this avtomat without knowing it at first and is soon drawn into the fight that has been raging on for thousands of years (it helps that she is a researcher for mechanical artifacts and handy with most tools). One avtomat seeks the help of a human, June. Nevertheless, they aren't exactly subtle because those that haven't died yet (think battery running out of juice) kill others to get the energy from their anima (basically the battery/soul).

Wilson's novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisitely drawn characters with visionary technology-and riveting action.īwahahahahaha - all this massive build-up through the ages and THIS is how it ends? Now THAT's what I call anti-climactic.īut first things first: this book is about avtomats, machines that can look very similar to humans but above all can talk and are conscious just like us!Īpparently, they've existed for thousands of years and IF any human ever got wind of their existance (which wasn't often), they snuffed his or her light out.

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. An ingenious new thriller that weaves a path through history, following a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries, written by the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse.

The Clockwork Dynasty by Daniel H. Wilson