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Also by Jay Lake:

Escapement, July 2008
Hardcover
Mainspring, May 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Trial Of Flowers, September 2006
Paperback
Dogs In The Moonlight, August 2005
Paperback
Rocket Science, August 2005
Paperback
Greetings From Lake Wu, December 2003
Paperback

MAINSPRING
By: Jay Lake

Tor
May 2008
On Sale: April 29, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0765356368
EAN: 9780765356369
Mass Market Paperback
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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.