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The Gage, a brass automaton fashioned around a human core by a long‑dead wizard of Messaline, travels with its mercenary master to deliver a crucial message from the realm’s top sorcerer to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. Joined on the perilous journey is the Dead Man, a weary former bodyguard of the fallen Uthman Caliphate, who serves as the message’s reluctant protector. Together, their uneasy friendship faces trials across imagined lands, weaving magic, nobility, and intrigue into a fantastical adventure.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: Elizabeth Bear
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