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The Alchemy of Stone

by Ekaterina Sedia
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Mattie, an intelligent automaton skilled in the use of alchemy, finds herself caught in the middle of a conflict between gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. With the old order quickly giving way to the new, Mattie discovers powerful and dangerous secrets—secrets that can completely alter the balance of power in the city of Ayona. This doesn't sit well with Loharri, the Mechanic who created Mattie and still has the key to her heart—literally.

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  • Release date

    December 18, 2013

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781607012610

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781607012610
      • File size: 641 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781607012610
      • File size: 279 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from June 30, 2008
      Sedia's evocative third novel, a steampunk fable about the price of industrial development, follows Mattie, an emancipated automaton, as her home city is rent by conflict between alchemists and the mechanics whose clanking, steaming inventions are changing society. Though created by a leader of the mechanics, Mattie chose to join the alchemists, but her creator still holds the key that winds her up. When a terrorist bombing and an assassination touch off all-out war between the two factions, she discovers the ugly secrets and exploitation that keep the city supplied with food and coal. Sedia's exquisitely bleak vision deliberately skewers familiar ideas from know-it-all computers to talking statues desperate for souls, leaving readers to reach their own conclusions about the proper balance of tradition and progress and what it means to be alive.

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