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Made Things
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrator
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 10 October 2024
- Run Time
- 4 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Made Things is a dark yet whimsical fantasy tale full of magic, half-mages and puppet companions. Includes the bonus short story ‘Precious Little Things’!
In a city built on secrets, the smallest thieves cast the longest shadows.
Welcome to Fountains Parish – a cesspit of trade and crime, where hope rots like week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief and trickster with a small talent for magic. She also has a hidden advantage: a crew of tiny, living puppet companions, some made of wood and some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, but together they survive the cobbled slums.
But survival is no longer enough when a local crime lord coerces Coppelia into a high-stakes heist – breaking into a mage’s palace. It could make her fortune, or ruin her entirely. But as their plans progress, a secret emerges which changes everything. Suddenly, Coppelia and her companions aren't just fighting for a payday. They’re the only thing standing between the great city and its destruction.
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‘One of the best storytellers in the business’
– John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War
‘Made Things is a thrilling parable about the abuse of power’
– The Guardian
‘The dashingly roguish cast, clever prose and well-placed moments of heartfelt emotion are sure to delight’
– Publishers Weekly
‘Intriguing, evocative imagery and quirky characters’
– SFX Magazine
Critics Review
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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
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A classically brilliant fantasy writer, a pusher of boundaries, a great storyteller
Paul Cornell, author of Witches of Lychford
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One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction
Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
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Equally deft in the realms of science fiction and fantasy adventure, Adrian Tchaikovsky knows how to take you to a place, no matter the setting
SciFiNow on The Tiger and the Wolf
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Intelligent, funny, ultimately heart-breaking, and unforgettable
Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima, on Service Model
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Picking up an Adrian Tchaikovsky book is proof you love your brain and want it to be happy
John Scalzi, author of Starter Villain
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This is Tchaikovsky at his best . . . in this time of potential self-aware AI, and actual wholesale inhumanity . . this reprint [is] particularly timely
Paul St John Mackintosh. the author of The Echo of the Sea and Other Strange War Stories
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Details
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrator
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duration
- 4 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 October 2024
- ISBN
- 9781035071739
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Dark fantasy, Urban fantasy, Adventure / action fiction, Narrative theme: love / relationships
Synopsis
Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Made Things is a dark yet whimsical fantasy tale full of magic, half-mages and puppet companions. Includes the bonus short story ‘Precious Little Things’!In a city built on secrets, the smallest thieves cast the longest shadows.Welcome to Fountains Parish – a cesspit of trade and crime, where hope rots like week-old bread. Coppelia is a street thief and trickster with a small talent for magic. She also has a hidden advantage: a crew of tiny, living puppet companions, some made of wood and some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, but together they survive the cobbled slums.But survival is no longer enough when a local crime lord coerces Coppelia into a high-stakes heist – breaking into a mage’s palace. It could make her fortune, or ruin her entirely. But as their plans progress, a secret emerges which changes everything. Suddenly, Coppelia and her companions aren't just fighting for a payday. They’re the only thing standing between the great city and its destruction.* * *‘One of the best storytellers in the business’– John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War ‘Made Things is a thrilling parable about the abuse of power’– The Guardian‘The dashingly roguish cast, clever prose and well-placed moments of heartfelt emotion are sure to delight’– Publishers Weekly‘Intriguing, evocative imagery and quirky characters’– SFX Magazine
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