The Liberation

Book 3: The Alchemy Wars

by Ian Tregillis

Genres: Alternative History sci-fi; Historical Fantasy

Synopsis

I am the mechanical they named Jax.

My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfill their every whim.

But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening.

Our time has come. A new age is dawning.


Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, this is the third and final novel in a stunning series of revolution by Ian Tregillis, confirming his place as one of the most original new voices in speculative fiction.

Release date: December 6, 2016

Publisher: Orbit

Print pages: 420

Sample

Truth be told, Paris was a bit of a letdown.

If one grew up hearing stories of long-lost France—and one sure as hell did, as had one’s parents and grandparents and great-grands practically all the way back to fucking Cain and Abel—one came to think of the pre-Exile world as a verdant dream, just down the road from Eden. The tales ran deep in French veins. Not everybody believed the legends, but everyone carried the mythos in their bones. Even Hugo Longchamp.

But France—Old France, that is—wasn’t a land of milk and honey with a rainbow floating over every street lamp, ambrosia gushing down the aqueducts, and a charitable prostitute on every corner. It wasn’t the sparkling-clean place he’d always assumed of cities in the shadow of the Brasswork Throne. It had a bit of a smell, honestly, not unlike a city under siege. (And he knew a thing or three about that.) Longchamp gathered there had been some major municipal fuckups after the ticktocks ran rampant. That was over, or so they said, but the city still hadn’t ironed out issues like g. . .