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341 pp.
| HarperCollins/Eos
| October, 2008
|
TradeISBN 978-0-06-134058-1$16.99
(3)
YA
Sol doesn't think much about the Machine, which powers last-city-on-Earth Ash Harbor, before witnessing an accident that nearly kills the settlement's executive. Then his father disappears, and Sol is sucked into a conspiracy of corporate control, murder, and the ominous Clockworkers. McGann draws on dystopian influences, from 1984 to The Matrix, but creates a world as fresh as it is frighteningly plausible.