Made Things

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Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important. Welcome to Fountains Parish - a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't . . . tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works. Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky 'One of the best storytellers in the business' - John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War on Service Model 'Addictively brilliant!' - John Gwynne, author of Malice on The Tiger and the Wolf 'Few contemporary writers have Adrian Tchaikovsky's range, excelling at chunky far-future hard SF as well as high-fantasy epics' - The Guardian

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Thieves, mages, and miniature golems run afoul of each other in this charming novella set in a steampunk fantasy world . . . The dashingly roguish cast, clever prose and well-placed moments of heartfelt emotion are sure to delight * Publishers Weekly *

Author Bio

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.