Books with title Clockwork

Evoking the classic fantasy adventures of Joan Aiken and Eva Ibbotson, this darkly delightful new novel from New York Times best-selling author Catherine Fisher glimmers with winter magic.Orphan Seren Rhys is on her way to a new life at the remote country mansion of Plas-y Fran when she is given a package by a stranger late at night in an empty train station. The package contains a crotchety, mechanical talking crow, which Seren reluctantly brings to her new home. But when she gets there, the happy Christmas she had hoped for turns out to be an illusion—the young son of the house, Tomos, has been missing for almost a year, rumored to have been taken by the fairies. With the Crow’s reluctant help and a little winter magic, Seren sets off on a perilous journey to bring Tomos home. An enthralling story of family and belonging set in frost-bound Victorian Wales.

Mr Langridge, the notorious Cerlecombe architect and engineer, has been murdered in his summer mansion… or so their daughters think. After all, who would attempt to get inside Langridge Manor – a place that is obviously haunted, where rooms change places at random and where strange automatons and mechanical creatures are rife?Police refuse to look into the matter. Nobody dares to approach the murder scene, so no proper investigation has been carried out. Only Thomas Blackpole, representing the Lundenwich Society, a team of children who are mediums and detectives, will take the case.But things back in Lundenwich are not looking so good. The undertaker is on the verge of bankruptcy and the future of the orphans lies in Ligeia Leighton’s hands. Meanwhile, a dark force lurks in the basement of the funeral home – something old and powerful and much more dangerous than a ghost. The kind of thing you pray you won’t find under your bed at night or inside your wardrobe, scratching against the door.And whatever it is, it won’t be restrained for much longer.Bleak Clockwork House is the second instalment of The Lundenwich Society, a dark gaslamp fantasy saga full of wonder and adventure for fans of fast-paced mysteries and alternative Victorian history.

THE CLOCKWORK THREE is the title of Matthew J. Kirby's novel about three young people that every person can identify with who is in or has experienced similar circumstances of crises, big or small: Giuseppe, Hannah, and Frederick. It is set on the eastern seaboard in a bustling city of the United States around 1900. Those three young characters provide ample opportunity for every young reader to find a friend to identify with relative to feelings of enslavement to something, whether it's freckles and red hair or something else much more or less serious. Take as a mentor either the orphaned Giuseppe, who must play his violin in the streets for money and turn over all the earnings from doing so to an evil master, or the lovely and tender Hannah, who must work her fingers to the bone with little opportunity or future as a maid in a high-class hotel in order to provide for her impoverished family, or the handsome and strong Frederick, the young apprentice to a clockmaker who can't remember what happened to him earlier in his life so that he lost his mother and ended up in an orphanage. Because, if you do, you'll find more than the magic in Giuseppe's green violin found as flotsam in the bay, or in the automaton Frederick has long dreamed of bringing to life, or in the treasure in the park Hannah hopes to find to deliver her family from poverty and worse. You will find the magic of friendship, of sacrificing yourself for someone else, and of loyalty to both people you love and to principles. This is Matthew's debut novel and what a grand one it is. You will love his tight storylines that will carry you away into the world of the three children; you'll marvel in the way he weaves his prose together so flawlessly, and you'll find satisfaction in the ease with which he employs metaphors and other literary devices. And characters! Oh my, the characters.

A debut novel of emerging youth writer Karen Noble. Fast paced and engaging, set in a bleak dystopian future where believing in the power of sheer will is the only way you can survive.There had been many wars, and in each war, there was a robot who had nearly limitless power to kill. One girl needs to unlock the secrets of the government and secrets about herself. Once upon a time, it took a simple girl to learn what it really means to be human.

It’s a scientific fact that robots are awesome. The Clockwork Man is the story of Kol, who learns what he’s made of and what he’s made for. Kol is sent by his creator on a journey to retrieve everything of value he comes across. Along the way he meets a colorful cast of characters who each leave their mark on him. As Kol tries to be more like them he is weighed down by the pressure and eventually collapses under the strain. In that broken-down place he meets a stranger who helps him get back on his feet and discover who he was created to be.

Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . . Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom.Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work. She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family -- if she can find it.

First published in 1923, The Clockwork Man is widely considered the original cyborg novel.Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a “clockwork man” appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Comical yet mind-blowing hijinks ensue.There are rumors floating about that E. V. Odle is the science-fiction pen name of Virginia Woolf. But true or not, true fans of science fiction and early cyborg stories like Isaac Azimov's Robot series will no doubt deem this novel a great find.Excerpt:It was just as Doctor Allingham had congratulated himself upon the fact that the bowling was broken, and that he had only to hit now and save the trouble of running, just as he was scanning the boundaries with one eye and with the other following Tanner's short, crooked arm raised high above the white sheet at the back of the opposite wicket, that he noticed the strange figure. Its abrupt appearance, at first sight like a scare-crow dumped suddenly on the horizon, caused him to lessen his grip upon the bat in his hand. His mind wandered for just that fatal moment, and his vision of the on-coming bowler was swept away and its place taken by that arresting figure of a man coming over the path at the top of the hill, a man whose attitude, on closer examination, seemed extraordinarily like another man in the act of bowling.That was why its effect was so distracting. It seemed to the doctor that the figure had popped up there on purpose to imitate the action of a bowler and so baulk him. During the fraction of a second in which the ball reached him, this secondary image had blotted out everything else. But the behaviour of the figure was certainly abnormal. Its movements were violently ataxic. Its arms revolved like the sails of a windmill. Its legs shot out in all directions, enveloped in dust.