The stone in the skull
By: Elizabeth Bear
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Lotus kingdoms
Publisher: TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780765380135
Subjects: Imaginary places; Magic; Nobility; Fiction
Description: The Gage is a brass automaton created by a wizard of Messaline around the core of a human being. His wizard is long dead, and he works as a mercenary. He is carrying a message from a the most powerful sorcerer of Messaline to the Rajni of the Lotus Kingdom. With him is The Dead Man, a bitter survivor of the body guard of the deposed Uthman Caliphate, protecting the message and the Gage. They are friends, of a peculiar sort.  -- amazon.com