Tor
May 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0765356368
EAN: 9780765356369
Mass Market Paperback
$7.99
Fantasy
Jay Lake’s first trade novel is an astounding creation.
Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the
planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of
the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is
visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees
the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the
great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself. Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker's
apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is
told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the
Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster
will ensue if it's not rewound. From innocence and ignorance
to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the
long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to
fulfill the commandment of his God.
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