The clockwork giant
Subtitle: a Chroniker City novel
By: by Brooke Johnson
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Chroniker City -- bk. 1
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [United States]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9781468057492
Subjects: Robots; Fiction; Mechanical engineers
Other titles: Chroniker City.
Description: It's 1881, the fiftieth anniversary of Chroniker City, the global hub of technological advancement in the modern world. Based off the British coast, the city is home to the most prestigious polytechnic university worldwide, a center of mechanical ingenuity teaching everything from clockwork mechanics and thermodynamics to electromagnetism and electricity. Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, dreams of one day becoming a member of the Guild, an elite group of inventors who envision a future fueled by technology, but her ambitions will only come to fruition if she can find a way into the illustrious university--an institution reserved for men. When she meets Emmerich Goss, an accomplished engineer newly recruited into the Guild, Petra discovers that he needs help building a top-secret, government-sanctioned automaton, and she is just the girl to help him. Together, they craft the clockwork giant, and as the deadline for its completion nears, Petra finds that she can love more than gears and mainsprings.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.