Of Machines & Magics (Paperback)

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Of Machines & Magics (Paperback)

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Billions of years ago, humans deserted their cradle and are now sparse opposite a galaxies. But a legends pronounce of a time when a object threatened to bake divided a middle worlds of a solar complement when it became a red giant, and a vestige of humankind returned to Earth from a farthest stars to implement a appurtenance to pierce humanity’s cradle out of danger.

Since then, a vestige communities built settlements in a burst and damaged slopes of a aged continental plates, unprotected to a elements when a Earth was moved. Now nestled in a outdoor reaches of a solar system, Earth faces a new challenge—the object has begun to fall into a white dwarf. As a object grows smaller and a universe gets colder, a query for a fabulous appurtenance that can pierce a world closer to a vanishing object becomes a competition to save a world from final extinction.

"An fascinating Steampunk query to save a failing destiny planet. Fresh off preference as a finalist in a Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now contest, Adele Abbot is a author to watch!"—David B. Coles, Author, The Tourist and The Last Free Men

"Adele Abbot has a new take on past and destiny story alike. A fascinating and lovely perspective that has a good filmic peculiarity to it. Echoes of Terry Pratchett, perhaps?"— Jack Everett, Author, 1/1: Jihad-Britain and The Faces of Immortality

Product Details

Published on: 2012-01-24
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
198 pages

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About a Author

ADELE ABBOT graduated from Manchester University, where she majored in law. Her seductiveness in Fantasy was initial dismissed when she came opposite a Lyonesse array by Jack Vance. Working retrograde from there, Adele detected Vance’s progressing works, including a Dying Earth series, and was immediately preoccupied by a approach assault and immorality could be dark behind pleasing poetry or absurd situations.

After several fake starts and copiousness of support from friends and family, she began essay her initial book, Of Machines & Magics. While selling for a publisher, Adele began work on another fantasy, Postponing Armageddon, that she entered in a “Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now” competition for determined entrance novelists, sponsored by Sir Terry Pratchett and Transworld Publishers. Out of some-more than 5 hundred entries, Postponing Armageddon reached a esteem shortlist of only 6 novels.

In further to posterior a essay career, Ms. Abbot is a full-time law partner by day. She now resides in Yorkshire in a United Kingdom with her son. Find out some-more during her website, www.adeleabbot.info.