'Clockwork Lives is an exploration and an embracing of adventure, complete with the twists and turns, the love and heartbreak, and the successes and tragedies that ultimately make life the compelling story that it is. “ Clockwork Lives is a highly satisfying assortment of stories of characters marked by a common theme: unique lives lived on a grand scale.”. Very highly recommended.' - Tales from Auction Front Lines You can always start again and live a new dream.' - Steampunk Canada Neil Peart was the drummer and lyricist of the legendary rock band Rush and the author of Ghost Rider, The Masked Rider, Traveling Music, Roadshow, Far and Away, Far and Near, Far and Wide, and, with Kevin J. Hopscotch and the Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series Terra Incognita Resurrection, Inc. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, DC Comics, and The X-Files and, with Brian Herbert, is the co-author of 14 novels in the Dune universe. Anderson is the bestselling science fiction author of over 120 novels.

When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories - and ultimately her own.Ĭlockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere “sentence or two” to a true epic. Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all.Īnderson and Peart have returned to their colourful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imagination. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. Some lives can be summed up in a sentence or two.

Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson