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Book Synopsis The Clockwork Assassins by : Robert J. Lloyd
Download or read book The Clockwork Assassins written by Robert J. Lloyd and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1680. In the Norfolk Fens, a body is revealed, a man murdered during the time of the Civil Wars. Harry Hunt of the Royal Society is called to investigate, for the dead man is Sir Jeffrey Hudson, the Queen's dwarf, a fierce warrior for the Royalist cause, who once killed a man in a duel. But no one knew of Hudson's death...except the murderer. For years, an imposter has lived in Hudson's place, working as a spy. Now this man, too, has disappeared, taking with him knowledge of a plot to kill the Queen. Harry's search takes him to Paris, ruled by Louis XIV and the sinister Chief of Police, La Reynie. There, he becomes ensnared in a city obsessed with poisoning. With the help of a cross-dressing aristocratic swordswoman, who has schemes of her own, Harry embarks on a desperate race to return to London. He must save the Queen and all who gather for her Catholic Consult. He must save them from the Clockwork Assassins. The CLOCKWORK ASSASSINS is Harry Hunt's second adventure, the sequel to The BLOODLESS BOY.
Book Synopsis The Bloodless Boy by : Robert J. Lloyd
Download or read book The Bloodless Boy written by Robert J. Lloyd and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best New Historical Novel of 2021 "Potent... fast-paced..." - The New York Times Book Review "Wonderfully imagined and wonderfully written . . . Superb!" -- Lee Child Part Wolf Hall, part The Name of the Rose, a riveting new literary thriller set in Restoration London, with a cast of real historic figures, set against the actual historic events and intrigues of the returned king and his court … The City of London, 1678. New Year’s Day. Twelve years have passed since the Great Fire ripped through the City. Eighteen since the fall of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of a King. London is gripped by hysteria, and rumors of Catholic plots and sinister foreign assassins abound. When the body of a young boy drained of his blood is discovered on the snowy bank of the Fleet River, Robert Hooke, the Curator of Experiments at the just-formed Royal Society for Improving Natural Knowledge, and his assistant Harry Hunt, are called in to explain such a ghastly finding—and whether it's part of a plot against the king. They soon learn it is not the first bloodless boy to have been discovered. Meanwhile, that same morning Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, blows his brains out, and a disgraced Earl is released from the Tower of London, bent on revenge against the King, Charles II. Wary of the political hornet’s nest they are walking into – and using scientific evidence rather than paranoia in their pursuit of truth – Hooke and Hunt must discover why the boy was murdered, and why his blood was taken. The Bloodless Boy is an absorbing literary thriller that introduces two new indelible heroes to historical crime fiction. It is also a powerfully atmospheric recreation of the darkest corners of Restoration London, where the Court and the underworld seem to merge, even as the light of scientific inquiry is starting to emerge …
Book Synopsis Clockwork Game Design by : Keith Burgun
Download or read book Clockwork Game Design written by Keith Burgun and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2024-12-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By finding and building around a strong core mechanism, we can access new levels of elegance and discover fresh new ideas in our game designs. Clockwork Game Design is a functional and directly applicable theory for game design, particularly focusing on strategic and tactical games, but also more broadly applicable to many kinds of games. It details the Clockwork Game Design pattern, which focuses on building around a fundamental core functionality. You can then use this understanding to build a system of tools that helps a designer refine their rulesets. A game can achieve clarity of purpose by starting with a strong core, then removing elements that conflict with that core while also adding elements that support it. The Second Edition is filled with examples and exercises detailing how to put the clockwork game design pattern into use, this book is a helpful tool in the toolbox of game designers. Key Features: A hands-on, practical book that outlines a very specific approach to designing games Develop the mechanics that make your game great, and limit or remove factors that disrupt the core concept Practice designing games through the featured exercises and illustrations
Book Synopsis Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual - the Lair of the Clockwork Book by : Bradley Schenck
Download or read book Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual - the Lair of the Clockwork Book written by Bradley Schenck and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Clockwork Book of Retropolis sits in its lair below the city and contains answers. It accumulates stories. Its huge graven face looms over the stainless steel sheets that are its pages and when it's not otherwise occupied, which is most of the time, it reads. From time to time it adds a footnote or a cross-reference. But mostly, it reads. And it waits. The Book accumulates stories by trading the stories it knows... for new stories. This sounds harmless: in fact, it sounds beneficial, until you think about it. Because stories are not neutral. Stories always say something about the person who tells them. They often say more than the teller realizes, and it's easy to become so wrapped up in the telling that we tell too much. Everything that the Book learns becomes part of the Book. And the Book grows by trading the stories it knows - to anybody who asks. Anybody. If that doesn't worry you, you're probably one of those people that natural selection hasn't noticed yet. Over the many years since the Clockwork Book collected its first story people have gradually learned to avoid the Book despite the fact that, in general, people really want to know things. And there must be a reason why they avoid the Book. There's a way to find out for certain, of course: you just have to bring something to trade. The Clockwork Book's lair lies far beneath the city of Retropolis, in the world of the Future That Never Was. As far as anybody knows, it's always been there - slowly collecting the stories, the ideas, and the secrets of its visitors, and then sharing them to those who come after. If you were to visit the Book yourself, you might realize that in its own retro-futuristic world the Book serves the purpose of a social network - a mechanical social network. With that in mind you could hardly be surprised at the misadventures its clients seem to have. And what is the Book, really, and who constructed it, and why? That's one of the few stories that the Book is not allowed to tell. On the other hand... the Book has learned how to bend the rules. The Lair of the Clockwork Book, with its 129 full color illustrations, began its life as a serial which ran from February of 2011 to April of 2012 at the Thrilling Tales of the Downright Unusual web site. It's now available in this handsome print edition.
Book Synopsis The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by : Mark Hodder
Download or read book The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man written by Mark Hodder and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hodder's second Burton & Swinburne steampunk adventure, following the acclaimed The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, is filled with eccentric steam-driven technology, grotesque characters, and a deepening mystery. When a clockwork-powered man of brass is found abandoned in Trafalgar Square, Burton and his assistant, the wayward poet Algernon Swinburne, find themselves on the trail of the stolen Garnier Collection--black diamonds rumored to be fragments of the Lemurian Eye of Naga, a meteorite that fell to Earth in prehistoric times. From a haunted mansion to the Bedlam madhouse, from South America to Australia, from séances to a secret labyrinth, Burton struggles with shadowy opponents and his own inner demons. Can the king's agent expose a plot that threatens to rip the British Empire apart, leading to an international conflict the like of which the world has never seen? And what part does the clockwork man have to play? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis The Clockwork Three by : Matthew J. Kirby
Download or read book The Clockwork Three written by Matthew J. Kirby and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . . Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom.Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family -- if she can find it.
Book Synopsis Clockwork Angels by : Kevin J. Anderson
Download or read book Clockwork Angels written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created in collaboration with the legendary rock band, Rush, best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson offers a novelization of group's new album.
Download or read book The Clockwork Rocket written by Greg Egan and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Yalda's universe, light has mass, no universal speed, and its creation generates energy; on Yalda's world, plants make food by emitting light into the dark night sky. And time is different: an astronaut might measure decades passing while visiting another star, only to return and find that just weeks have elapsed for her friends. On the farm where she lives, Yalda sees strange meteors that are entering the planetary system at an immense, unprecedented speed - and it soon becomes apparent that more of this ultra-fast material is appearing all the time, putting her world in terrible danger. An entire galaxy is about to collide with their own. There is one hope: a fleet sent straight towards the approaching galaxy, as fast as possible. Though it will feel like weeks back home, on board, millennia will pass before the collision, time enough to raise new generations, and time enough to find a way to stop the ultra-fast material. Either way, they have a chance to save everyone back on the home world.
Book Synopsis Clockwork, Or All Wound Up by : Philip Pullman
Download or read book Clockwork, Or All Wound Up written by Philip Pullman and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.
Book Synopsis The Clockwork Dynasty by : Daniel H. Wilson
Download or read book The Clockwork Dynasty written by Daniel H. Wilson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. "[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable traveler who exposes her to a reality she never imagined, as they embark on an around-the-world adventure and discover breathtaking secrets of the past… Russia, 1725: In the depths of the Kremlin, the tsar’s loyal mechanician brings to life two astonishingly humanlike mechanical beings. 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. Wilson’s novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisitely drawn characters with visionary technology—and riveting action.
Download or read book The Clockwork Dagger written by Beth Cato and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of magic, mystery, and romance, an enchanting steampunk fantasy debut in the bestselling vein of Trudi Canavan and Gail Carriger. Orphaned as a child, Octavia Leander was doomed to grow up on the streets until Miss Percival saved her and taught her to become a medician. Gifted with incredible powers, the young healer is about to embark on her first mission, visiting suffering cities in the far reaches of the war-scarred realm. But the airship on which she is traveling is plagued by a series of strange and disturbing occurrences, including murder, and Octavia herself is threatened. Suddenly, she is caught up in a flurry of intrigue: the dashingly attractive steward may be one of the infamous Clockwork Daggers—the Queen’s spies and assassins—and her cabin-mate harbors disturbing secrets. But the danger is only beginning, for Octavia discovers that the deadly conspiracy aboard the airship may reach the crown itself.
Book Synopsis The Clockwork Dragon by : Jonathan Emmett
Download or read book The Clockwork Dragon written by Jonathan Emmett and published by Oxford University Press - Children. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max and Lizzie's kingdom is being terrorized by a ferocious dragon named Flamethrottle. But if you think they are frightened you had better think again! They have a daring plan to chase that dastardly dragon out of town . . .
Book Synopsis Playing at the Next Level by : Ken Horowitz
Download or read book Playing at the Next Level written by Ken Horowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today a multinational video game developer, Sega was the first to break Nintendo's grip on the gaming industry, expanding from primarily an arcade game company to become the dominant game console manufacturer in North America. A major part of that success came from the hard work and innovation of its subsidiary, Sega of America, who in a little more than a decade wrested the majority market share from Nintendo and revolutionized how games were made. Drawing on interviews with nearly 100 Sega alumni, this book traces the development of the company, revealing previously undocumented areas of game-making history, including Sega's relationship with Tonka, the creation of its internal studios, and major breakthroughs like the Sega Channel and HEAT Network. More than 40 of the company's most influential games are explored in detail.
Book Synopsis Clockwork Destiny by : Kevin J. Anderson
Download or read book Clockwork Destiny written by Kevin J. Anderson and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in the New York Times–bestselling, award-winning steampunk trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer Neil Peart In Clockwork Angels and Clockwork Lives, readers met the optimistic young hero Owen Hardy, as well as the more reluctant adventurer Marinda Peake, in an amazing world of airships and alchemy, fantastic carnivals and lost cities. Now Owen Hardy, retired and content in his quiet, perfect life with the beautiful Francesca, is pulled into one last adventure with his eager grandson Alain. This final mission for the Watchmaker will take them up to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule and the ends of the Earth. Marinda Peake must undertake a mission of her own, not only to compile the true life story of the mysterious Watchmaker, but also to stop a deadly new group of anarchists. The Clockwork trilogy is based on the story and lyrics from the last album of musical titans Rush, with Anderson and Peart expanding the world, stories, and characters. The two developed the final novel in the trilogy in the last years of Peart’s life, and more than a year after his passing, Anderson returned to that unfinished project, with the full support of Peart’s wife, bringing Owen and Marinda’s stories to a satisfying and stirring conclusion.
Book Synopsis Daisy on the Outer Line by : Ross Sayers
Download or read book Daisy on the Outer Line written by Ross Sayers and published by Gob Stopper. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Daisy trashes her stepdad's funeral, she gets blind drunk and wakes up on the Glasgow subway to find she has travelled back in time. To make amends for her behaviour, she must save a life - but she doesn't know who, how, or where to begin.
Download or read book Daisy's Run written by Scott Baron and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sci-fi awesomeness
Book Synopsis Wonderland Tales: Magical Adventures for Kids by : Robin Wickens
Download or read book Wonderland Tales: Magical Adventures for Kids written by Robin Wickens and published by Rob's Books. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a whimsical journey through "Wonderland Tales: Magical Adventures for Kids," a delightful collection of 50 mixed stories that will enchant and inspire young readers. From curious creatures to daring quests, this book is filled with magical adventures that spark the imagination and warm the heart. Join unforgettable characters on a rollercoaster of emotions as they navigate through mystical landscapes and overcome extraordinary challenges. Perfect for children who love to dream and explore, this enchanting book promises to captivate readers of all ages with its charm and wonder.
