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But this man was strong. He was holy. My eyes filled with tears because I knew then he was an avenging angel, righteous, stalking the mists of battle. I felt I was somehow witnessing the truth. The very incarnation of justice. He stumbled and fell, like a man, and lay crumpled among the bodies of my friends. Trying to look every direction at once. This man had seen the furious vengeance of God and knew he had been judged. I do not know what he saw, but I will never forget his face as he saw it. His eyes went wide in shock. He spun, coat flapping, and screamed a command to his driver inside the tank, looking away for one second. it was enough.
The angel rose, taking the man by the face. Then the hatch on top clanged shut and the panzer engine began to rumble. Running away. The might of a tank, invincible and armored, fleeing from one man. Then the thing leaped onto the side of the tank. With one hand, he tore the hatch right off the turret. Reaching inside, he dragged the shrieking German driver out by his collar, thumped his face against the metal, and rolled his body onto the ground. Like it was nothing. Like he was slapping a fish against a rock. Something fell from his hands. Then he walked away, disappearing into the mist. The tank kept rolling toward the river. After some time, I heard a splash. The sting of my injury was growing, but even then, curiosity had not left me. So I dragged myself over rubble and death until I reached the spot where the angel had stood. But on the ground, instead of blood, I found shards of metal. Bits of leather. Bullet fragments and something else. An object, very old I think, yet more modern than any machinery in that battle.
this relic is what the angel of vengeance left behind. He finally looked up at me, watching as I traced my fingers over the curves of the artifact. Things older than we know. Walking with the faces of men. there are angels among us. Sometimes they will judge. And sometimes they will exact punishment. Not to ours. Tell no one. They are content to live in ignorance. Others are more curious. What kind of person are you, June? With that, he carefully took the relic from me, wrapped it back in its oily cloth, and placed it inside the ammunition box. He pushed the old brass padlock back through the ring and, with a click, he locked it tight.
Grandfather looked at me for a long moment. Two years later, at his funeral, my grandmother handed me a sealed envelope. Inside, I found a small thing that changed the course of my life. A brass key. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse its sequel Robogenesis, and many other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Amped, and The Clockwork Dynasty. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His latest novel is The Andromeda Evolution, an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton's groundbreaking The Andromeda Strain. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon. Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
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Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination. Richly-imagined and heart-pounding, Daniel H. Previous page. Print length. Publication date. August 1, See all details. Next page. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Robopocalypse: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters. Kasa Smart Light Switch HS, Single Pole, Needs Neutral Wire, 2.
From School Library Journal June, an anthropologist who specializes in ancient technologies, unwittingly puts herself in danger after she reveals a secret about the relic her grandfather left her when he died. A lethal robot, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the artifact, attacks her, but she is rescued by another mechanical being, Peter, who has been programmed to devote his life to justice. Dual narratives follow June in the present day and Peter throughout his prolonged existence in modern and ancient history as he tries to learn when and why he was created.
A hidden world where robots pose as humans conceals in plain sight a centuries-old conflict involving automatons who were each created with a unique passion and code. The chapters are brief, with the rapid pace of a Dan Brown novel. There's plenty of action here, but Wilson also raises questions about the purpose of life and what makes someone human. VERDICT For followers of the author's "Robopocalypse" series as well as fans of fast-moving steampunk or anyone who has graduated from Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret. —Carrie Shaurette, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ. It's like some fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator --or maybe a cross between I, Robot and The Difference Engine , with a dash of Blade Runner for good measure.
It reads like classic steampunk on steroids. In other words, it's totally bad ass and you're going to love it. Wilson is one of the foremost prophets of the near future. In The Clockwork Dynasty , the irrepressibly readable Wilson has retreated to pseudo-vampiric sentient robots. The plot is driven by a human protagonist, June Stefanov. It may wear its influences on its sleeve but it's also a welcome treat for steampunk and fantasy fans. A thrilling mix of influences, much like Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants and HBO's Westworld , that creates a captivating scenario begging for many sequels. this is science fiction at its best—thoughtful, challenging, beautifully written and astonishing. June's mad dash to flee a secret society bent on taking her knowledge and her life evokes the best moments of Dan Brown.
Wilson delivers a fascinating new thriller that takes us on a journey to the past discovering human-like machines that have lived among us for centuries. Steampunk and other genre fiction fans should give it a whirl. He does so with sensitivity, intelligence and a gift for near-baroque detail. It's a thoroughly engaging read that traps you in its grinding narrative cogs and lingers long after the final page has turned. Think The Terminator meets Indiana Jones with a crash course in history thrown in. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Wilson has created a ripping, pulsing whirlwind of a world: a sweeping tale of forgotten secrets and wars, of empires and those who topple them, of identities given and taken away, of robots who seem to know better than we just what it means to be human. This is Wilson's most adventurous, romantic, utterly thrilling work, and it's not to be missed. Wilson has woven a brilliant fictional world into history, making this book a great read for lovers of historical fiction as well as fantasy and sci-fi.
About the Author DANIEL H. WILSON is the bestselling author of Robopocalypse , Robogenesis , and Amped , among others. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and earned a B. in computer science from the University of Tulsa and a Ph. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children. Read more. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!
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Most have found solace in the belief that a god or gods have been our benefactors. A handful of others have imagined that an extraterrestrial race has guided our ascent through time. In an original twist on this thesis, science fiction author Daniel H. Wilson envisions a race of ancient robots that has been the architect of our progress. In The Clockwork Dynasty, we meet these ancient automatons up close and personal. A SCIENTIST WITH AN OBSESSION Wilson builds his story around an American scientist and a handful of robots of ancient but indeterminate origin. The scientist, whom we know as June, studies antique automata of the sort created for diversion in the courts of Europe in centuries past. But she is obsessed with a childhood memory of an exchange with her Russian grandfather. When she was sixteen, he gave her a small object that ever since she has worn on a chain around her neck. Her dedushka told her he had picked it up on the ground during the Battle of Stalingrad after an avenging angel wiped out a contingent of Nazi troops.
Only much later, once June’s life becomes entangled with that of an avtomat, or mechanical robot, named Peter, will we come to know the function of the curious object hanging from her neck. ANCIENT ROBOTS COME TO LIFE We first meet Peter when he comes to awareness in a watchmaker’s shop in Moscow in Tsar Peter I, known as Peter the Great, rules the Russian Empire he has built. And Peter, the namesake avtomat, has been constructed in the tsar’s image. He is six-foot-eight and inhumanly strong, a warrior of almost matchless skill. In the same workshop, a small girl named Elena Petrovna, also an avtomat, has come to life as well. Peter perceives her as his sister. His mission, he believes, to protect her and honor pravda, or truth and justice.
But above all he has been brought to life to serve the tsar. Apart from the watchmaker, the tsar, and the tsarina, no one knows that Peter and Elena are robots. “Never reveal your nature to a human being,†cautions the watchmaker. “You are not of our time. People cannot understand your existence. †Nor will we readers until this beautifully plotted novel approaches its climax. And, along the way, we’ll visit historical scenes from Peter the Great’s Russia, to ancient China, to the Battle of Stalingrad. AN ANCIENT CHINESE EMPEROR One of the central characters in The Clockwork Dynasty is the mythical Chinese Emperor Huangdi, known as the Yellow Emperor. Although he doesn’t surface until fairly late in the narrative, understanding who Huangdi is purported to have been is important to the story.
In legend, he reigned from BCE to BCE—yes, a full century—and died at the age of Huangdi is portrayed in Chinese “history†as the first man to unite all of China, although it seems likely that any territory he might have ruled was but a fraction of the later Chinese Empire. Huangdi is variously credited with having invented the ancient Chinese writing system and the Chinese calendar. But he was, above all, a brilliant military leader who imposed his will by the ruthless exercise of superior arms. WHERE DID “ROBOTS†COME FROM? It’s fairly well known that the term robot entered public discourse in with the play R. by Czech author Karel Čapek. The title stands for Rossumovi Univerzálnà Roboti Rossum’s Universal Robots.
What is less well known is that the word robota, or “robot,†in Czech and many other Slavic languages, means servitude, forced labor, or drudgery. The term is originally from Old Slavonic, a precursor to Slavic tongues. However, Daniel Wilson doesn’t use the term robot or robota in this novel. Instead, he calls the clockwork creatures avtomat. Curiously, that word today is a Russian term for assault rifle. In earlier times, it meant any sort of automatic device. Weren’t expecting that, were you? A brass key. Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse its sequel Robogenesis, and many other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Amped, and The Clockwork Dynasty. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His latest novel is The Andromeda Evolution, an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton's groundbreaking The Andromeda Strain.
Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon. close ; } } this. getElementById iframeId ; iframe. max contentDiv. scrollHeight, contentDiv. offsetHeight, contentDiv. document iframe. An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids. Peter and Elena are a brother and sister fallen out of time, possessed with uncanny power, and destined to serve great empires. Struggling to blend into pre-Victorian society, they are pulled into a legendary war that has raged for centuries. The Clockwork Dynasty seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings designed to live by ironclad principles, yet constantly searching for meaning. As June plunges deeper into their world, her choices will ultimately determine their survival or extermination.
Richly-imagined and heart-pounding, Daniel H. Previous page. Print length. Sticky notes. On Kindle Scribe. Publication date. File size. Page Flip. Word Wise. Enhanced typesetting. See all details. Next page. Review " The Clockwork Dynasty is my new favorite secret history novel! It's like some fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator --or maybe a cross between I, Robot and The Difference Engine , with a dash of Blade Runner for good measure. In other words, it's totally bad ass and you're going to love it. Wilson is one of the foremost prophets of the near future. In The Clockwork Dynasty , the irrepressibly readable Wilson has retreated to pseudo-vampiric sentient robots. The plot is driven by a human protagonist, June Stefanov. It may wear its influences on its sleeve but it's also a welcome treat for steampunk and fantasy fans.
A thrilling mix of influences, much like Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants and HBO's Westworld , that creates a captivating scenario begging for many sequels. this is science fiction at its best—thoughtful, challenging, beautifully written and astonishing. June's mad dash to flee a secret society bent on taking her knowledge and her life evokes the best moments of Dan Brown. Wilson delivers a fascinating new thriller that takes us on a journey to the past discovering human-like machines that have lived among us for centuries.
Steampunk and other genre fiction fans should give it a whirl. He does so with sensitivity, intelligence and a gift for near-baroque detail. It's a thoroughly engaging read that traps you in its grinding narrative cogs and lingers long after the final page has turned. Think The Terminator meets Indiana Jones with a crash course in history thrown in. A thoroughly enjoyable read. Wilson has created a ripping, pulsing whirlwind of a world: a sweeping tale of forgotten secrets and wars, of empires and those who topple them, of identities given and taken away, of robots who seem to know better than we just what it means to be human. This is Wilson's most adventurous, romantic, utterly thrilling work, and it's not to be missed. Wilson has woven a brilliant fictional world into history, making this book a great read for lovers of historical fiction as well as fantasy and sci-fi.
DANIEL H. WILSON is the bestselling author of Robopocalypse , Robogenesis , and Amped , among others. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and earned a B. in computer science from the University of Tulsa and a Ph. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children. All rights reserved. Read more. About the author Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. You can visit his website at www. Read more Read less. Customers who bought this item also bought. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. Robogenesis: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries. Kindle Edition. Robopocalypse: A Novel Vintage Contemporaries. The Andromeda Evolution. Michael Crichton. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters. Amped Vintage Contemporaries. Upgrade: A Novel. Blake Crouch. Customer reviews. How are ratings calculated?
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from Canada. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. Intriguing, very "Russian" in feel - dark, compelling and unsettling. Slow start but shortly in it becomea difficult to put down. Wilson's best to date.
Boring and reall hard to get into. Wilson’s worst effort so far. One person found this helpful. I came away from the book disappointed. All it seemed to do was lay the ground work for future novels. No explanation of where these 'automatons' originated from. Guess that's forthcoming in volume 3 Logic gaps- why is it "Peter" needs repair everytime he has a fight that’s detailed in the book yet somehow, in the battles he has when he's far away from anyone who could help him, he never suffers debilitating damage, or wounds that reveal his true nature? WON'T be looking for the sequels. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. A really excellent premise to this story. Although the book is stand-alone, i. the author wraps the story up, there is enough scope for prequels and sequels, which is great news. The characters are well imagined and very well written, making them easy to identify with love or hate.
The story ranges across a wide time-period without loosing the reader i. it's not used as a means to create complexity and a wide set of locations ditto. Great pacing, with a few unique takes on some origin myths stories, history? and action scenes that are well integrated into the overall narrative. Well worth a read, and left me hoping the author does do a prequel, sequel, or sister book. Report abuse. Starts well, finishes poorly in my opinion which was a shame as I have enjoyed reading the authors previous work.
Please write more Human and alien working together to a common cause but separated by ages of time. A compelling tale, well written. As described, prompt delivery. Thank you. Wilson has given us another fantastic robot novel. The premise of “The Clockwork Dynasty†is that we humans have had robots called “avtomat†living among us for centuries. They are often the basis for myths such as vampires and other phenomena that are difficult for humans to understand. The book starts as two storylines. The first concerns June, a woman who travels the world at the expense of the Kunlun Foundation to examine automata. Most of the time she finds that the artifacts have been mysteriously spoiled by someone who came before her.
The second storyline, set in Russia in , is the most recent origin of the avtomat Pytor and his sister Elena who are assembled under the authority of Peter the Great. Pytor’s existence is ruled by a sense of truth and justice, “pravda. †Elena’s priority is “logic. †The two tales are told in alternating chapters that often end on a suspended note which makes for fast reading. The intertwining tales explore what it means to be human and how we allow ideas to rule our lives. Like Mr. Wilson’s “Robopocalypse,†this book is beautifully cinematic and bursting with action as well as ideas.
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Prologue The age of a thing is in the feel of it. Secrets are locked in the fingerprints of cracked porcelain and the bloom of rust on metal. With a little thought, the mind-reeling eons of time will stretch out before you like a star-filled sky. No scientist does. My grandfather, my dedushka. he taught me this awe for the forgotten past. When I was sixteen, Vasily Stefanov caught me hiding in his toolshed, rummaging through his war souvenirs and trying to open the brass padlock on a battered green ammunition box with a screwdriver. He whistled low, like a cuckoo. Instead of punishing me, he told me a story. My grandfather took the ammunition box from me and set it clattering on his workbench. He unlocked the padlock and opened the dented lid, revealing a few faded photographs, an old pocket watch, and scattered medals.
Then, he lifted out an oily cloth with something heavy wrapped in it. Without a word, he dropped the shrouded bundle across my palms. Inside, I found something metallic and dense, something so intricate and alien that my breath caught in my throat. Etched into a crescent-shaped slice of metal the size of a seashell, I saw a labyrinthine pattern of grooves—a language of bizarre angles. I always meant to share it, you understand? But the years march. With a story I have never told anyone. Grandfather cleared his throat, leaned against a creaking workbench. My family lived in a village near the Ural Mountains. The Germans stormed onto Russian soil and it was decided I was old enough to journey to the front. All the boys in the village were sent.
We were excited. We were already starving. The Germans had pushed a million Soviet soldiers nearly to the banks of the Volga. The women and children and wounded who were left in the city. they finally tried to escape across the icy black river. All hope was gone. It was only survival then. mass of them, clinging to anything that would float. And the low gray clouds over the river were screaming with Nazi warplanes. The sky was weeping tears of fire onto the backs of those women and children. Oil and gas had spilled on the water. The river herself was burning. Stalingrad itself was already bombed to oblivion. it was a moonscape. Another world. A place of shattered brick and wood. Crumbling walls sagging in fields that were once neighborhoods, empty windows like open mouths, vomiting dust. The fallen froze where they lay and were not buried. Nothing aboveground was left. We lived this horror for months. months that went on for eternity. Frostbite and thirst and snipers. Early on we had trained our dogs to wear explosives and run under the German tanks.
Later, we ate them. And I do not know how to explain to you, vnuchka. but over time. in that strange cold world, the memory of my life faded to gray ash. Lost in the act of remembering, he would not look at me while he spoke. One minute the other boys and I were lined up in our greatcoats, rifles snapping bullets, stocks laid over a wall of rubble. Those who ran were shot. We pulled our triggers when forms appeared in the smoke and held our ground. No matter how many German helmets appeared. we were ready to make the sacrifice. A German tank had zeroed in on us. It was as if a giant had put his fist into the hill and we were thrown, flung into the sky like rag dolls, helmets rolling.
A hunchbacked panzer crawled out of the mist, painted yellow and gray, like a sick tiger, the black eye of its turret searching for us. Lying on my stomach, breathing dust, eyes not focusing. I could hear the German crew shouting to each other. Like demons made of smoke and dust, calling out from hell. What happened next. it is terrible. But you must know. Someday, it may help you make sense of what you hold in your hands. They looked like warped letters, mixed with geometrical shapes, lines and dots. The metal felt strangely warm, the finely carved edges dissolving into fractal curls. In each crescent tip was a small hole, as if the artifact were a small part of something bigger. My side was numb, torn by shrapnel and rock. But I could still move.
Ears ringing, I rolled onto my back. And by a stroke of luck, I was alive to see what came next. His face was in anguish, his movements almost blind. But he had spotted the Germans before they saw him. He dove forward and snatched the sidearm away from one soldier and fired it into his torso until there were no more bullets. In another stride, he grabbed two more soldiers in a bear hug. Then he smashed their heads together—shattered their helmets. The men fell dead. And finally, the Russian turned. I felt his gaze upon me. We were weak. But this man was strong.
He was holy. My eyes filled with tears because I knew then he was an avenging angel, righteous, stalking the mists of battle. I felt I was somehow witnessing the truth. The very incarnation of justice. He stumbled and fell, like a man, and lay crumpled among the bodies of my friends. Trying to look every direction at once. This man had seen the furious vengeance of God and knew he had been judged. I do not know what he saw, but I will never forget his face as he saw it. His eyes went wide in shock. He spun, coat flapping, and screamed a command to his driver inside the tank, looking away for one second. it was enough. The angel rose, taking the man by the face. Then the hatch on top clanged shut and the panzer engine began to rumble. Running away.
The might of a tank, invincible and armored, fleeing from one man. Then the thing leaped onto the side of the tank. With one hand, he tore the hatch right off the turret.
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