- Robots, Fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Fiction, fantasy, historical
"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army.
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Classical in form, grave, epic and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Tregillis
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 471
- Publisher
- ORBIT, Orbit, imusti
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780356502328
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