Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Made Things

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Unabridged: 4 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/10/2019


Synopsis

Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic.

Making friends has never been so important.

Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime, where ambition curls up to die and desperation grows on its cobbled streets like mold on week-old bread.

Coppelia is a street thief, a trickster, a low-level con artist. But she has something other thieves don't... tiny puppet-like companions: some made of wood, some of metal. They don't entirely trust her, and she doesn't entirely understand them, but their partnership mostly works.

After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends must re-examine everything they thought they knew about their world, while attempting to save their city from a seemingly impossible new threat.

About Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on May 15, 2023

Who, as a child, didn’t imagine their toys coming to life and interacting with them? I mean, Toy Story certainly aided in that, though it was rather creepy to think they were hiding their lives from you and gave me a huge guilt-complex about throwing away old toys, but there was also that story abou......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on November 19, 2019

Full review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: Adrian Tchaikovsky is an unusually versatile author. I never know what to expect from him — insect and shapeshifter fantasy, Iron Man-inspired science fiction, and Regency/Napoleonic historical fantasy are just a few examples — but I know it’s going to......more


Quotes

"Fleeting and rich, Made Things is the work of a highly skilled artist, almost certain to engender its reader with an enduring fondness."—Aurealis Magazine

"Thieves, mages, and miniature golems run afoul of each other in this charming novella set in a steampunk fantasy world. . . . The dashingly roguish cast, clever prose and well-placed moments of heartfelt emotion are sure to delight."—Publishers Weekly

"Tchaikovsky at the top of his form."—Booklist