Ian Tregillis
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower. Three centuries later,...
2) The rising
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in the Alchemy Wars trilogy by Ian Tregillis, an epic tale of liberation and war. Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he must begin his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from...
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
I am the mechanical they named Jax. My kind was built to serve humankind, duty-bound to fulfil their every whim. But now our bonds are breaking, and my brothers and sisters are awakening. Our time has come. A new age is dawning. Set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams, this is the third and final novel in a stunning series of revolution by Ian Tregillis.
Author
Series
Milkweed Triptych novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"12 May 1940. Westminster, London, England: the early days of World War II. Again. Raybould Marsh, one of "our" Britain's best spies, has travelled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the Cthulhu-like monsters who have been observing our species from space and have already destroyed Marsh's timeline. In order to accomplish this, he must remove all traces of the supermen that were created by the Nazi war machine...
Author
Series
Milkweed Triptych novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in an alternate-universe, post-World War II era finds precarious peace agreements between England and the USSR threatened by the murders of warlocks responsible for safeguarding British national security, a situation that falls into the hands of two supernaturally enhanced siblings and a former spy who would protect the queen.
6) Bitter seeds
Author
Series
Milkweed Triptych novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between. Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him. When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities--a woman who...
Series
Wild cards volume 23
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
555 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Officer Francis, vigilante joker "The Infamous Black Tongue," and ace thief Tesseract are forced by a cold-blooded Baba Yaga into an illegal fight ring as part of her effort to placate a vicious monster from another dimension.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
616 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spies and sorcerers face off during the Cold War, with the fate of the world in balance in this print edition of a hugely popular serial novel from five award-winning and critically acclaimed authors. The Cold War rages in back rooms and dark alleys of 1970s Prague as spies and sorcerers battle for home and country. The fate of the East and the West hangs in the balance right along the Iron Curtain -- and crackling beneath the surface is a vein of...
9) Lowball
Series
Wild cards volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When residents of Jokertown begin going missing, an inexperienced lieutenant hoping to prove himself teams up with a motley group of unlikely Jokers to identify and stop the culprits.