Book description
A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World. • "A head-spinning cliffhanger that reads a bit like Harry Potter for grownups…. It would be a shame if no movie were made from this glorious piece of kaleidoscope-fiction." —The Wall Street Journal
Joe Spork…
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1 author picked Angelmaker as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I identified with the protagonist's drive toward his grandfather's lessons and his desire to live the opposite of his father's path. I was immediately taken by the love interest, at which point the action chases them forward—much like the train that rattles their world.
This world and its inhabitants are as carefully crafted as the clockwork bees, the war train, and the vivacious old woman with her own story to tell!
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Imperium is the most expensive structure ever created. Once an orbiting laboratory, it is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium’s resident biophysicist, finds herself questioning whether babysitting a passel of space glampers…
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