From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed.
The Grand Mechanism is a machine the size of Saturnβs rings that has lain dormant for all recorded history, watched over by the alien Jzat. Now, rogue elements in Jzat and human society conspire to activate it, hoping it will bring them power and opportunity. But the only person who knows the Mechanismβs secrets is the Ravβnah Abelisk, a Jzat holy man on sabbatical aboard a vast alien megaship. Believing the Mechanismβs activation will bring galactic devastation, Nic Mafalda has to seek out the Abelisk before his sacred knowledge falls into the wrong handsβbut only if she can first escape the lethally radioactive remains of her wrecked scout ship.
Sciencefiction en fantasy