![]() ![]() It took a while, but I started hearing some low buzz surrounding debut author Matthew Kirby’s novel The Clockwork Three. Particularly when the writing is so good that you’d happily read the whole thing even if there weren’t some gearlike mechanical whoozitz element to the tale. ![]() ![]() a good novel that involves clockwork and gears is right up my alley. I’m tired of being told it’s the next big thing and that we should all be reading it. I’m only really tired of hearing about it. I’m tired of Steampunk, you see, but even then I have a confession to make. I’m tired of Steampunk, and yet if I say that word to most kids that walk into my library they’ll give me a blank stare followed by an immediate, “What’s Steampunk?” I’d explain to them that it’s this strange amalgamation of historical fiction plus futuristic gear-based clockwork technology but I know that this would not cause the blank stares to cease. ![]()
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