The Mechanical: Book One of the Alchemy Wars

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My name is Jax.

That is the name granted to me by my human masters.

I am a slave.

But I shall be free.

A novel of extraordinary vision, both heart-breaking and thrilling, from one of the most original new voices in speculative fiction.

Reviews

A confident and thrilling debut

A dynamite first novel

A white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters - Cory Doctorow on BITTER SEEDS

A damned entertaining novel. If Bitter Seeds is any indication of what's to come, then Tregillis will have a fertile writing career. Receives my highest recommendations

The one novel of 2010 I would recommend to anyone who believes that speculative fiction cannot compete with "literary" novels

A major new talent. - GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

Exciting and intense - Publishers Weekly

Eloquent and utterly compelling - Kirkus

Author Bio

Ian Tregillis is the son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot card reader. He was born and raised in Minnesota, where his parents had landed after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story, he's told, involves a Dutch tramp steamer and a stolen horse.) Nowadays he lives in New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists and other unsavoury types.