Clockwork Lives

Clockwork Lives

<P><B><I>Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two. Other lives are epics.</B></I><BR><BR>In <I>Clockwork Angels</I>, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all.<BR><BR>Anderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imagination. Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village; she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories — and ultimately her own.<BR><BR><I>Clockwork Lives</I> is a steampunk <I>Canterbury Tales</I>, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere “sentence or two” to a true epic.</P>