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Made Things - by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Paperback)

Made Things - by  Adrian Tchaikovsky (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Award-winning author Tchaikovsky's <i>Made Things<i> is a dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't...tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's <i>Made Things</i> is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. <p/>Making friends has never been so important.</b> <p/>Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. <p/>Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works. <p/>After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must re-examine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Few contemporary writers have Adrian Tchaikovsky's range... <i>Made Things</i> is a thrilling parable about the abuse of power and the ability of the disenfranchised to effect change. --<i>The Guardian</i> <p/>Fleeting and rich, Made Things is the work of a highly skilled artist, almost certain to engender its reader with an enduring fondness.--<i>Aurealis Magazine</i> <p/>Thieves, mages, and miniature golems run afoul of each other in this charming novella set in a steampunk fantasy world. . . . The dashingly roguish cast, clever prose and well-placed moments of heartfelt emotion are sure to delight.--<i>Publishers Weekly <p/></i>Tchaikovsky at the top of his form.--<i>Booklist<br></i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series and the epic science fiction blockbuster <i>Children of Time</i>. He has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award, a British Fantasy Society Award, and been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award. In civilian life he is a gamer and amateur entomologist.

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