Boneshaker: The Clockwork Century Series, Book 1
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In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska's ice. Thus was Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine born.
But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.
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Cherie Priest. (2009). Boneshaker: The Clockwork Century Series, Book 1. 1 Tor Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cherie Priest. 2009. Boneshaker: The Clockwork Century Series, Book 1. Tor Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cherie Priest, Boneshaker: The Clockwork Century Series, Book 1. Tor Publishing Group, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cherie Priest. Boneshaker: The Clockwork Century Series, Book 1. 1 Tor Publishing Group, 2009.
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- bioText: Cherie Priest debuted to great acclaim with Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers, a trilogy of Southern Gothic ghost stories featuring heroine Eden Moore. She is also the author of Fathom, Dreadnought, and Boneshaker, which was nominated for a Nebula and Hugo Award and won the PNBA Award and the Locus Award for best science-fiction novel. She is an associate editor at Subterranean Press. Born in Tampa, Florida, Priest went to college at Southern Adventist University and earned her master's in rhetoric at the University of Tennessee. After spending most of her life in the southern United States, she recently moved to Seattle, Washington, with her husband, Aric, and a fat black cat named Spain.
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But on its first test run the Boneshaker went terribly awry, destroying several blocks of downtown Seattle and unearthing a subterranean vein of blight gas that turned anyone who breathed it into the living dead.
Now it is sixteen years later, and a wall has been built to enclose the devastated and toxic city. Just beyond it lives Blue's widow, Briar Wilkes. Life is hard with a ruined reputation and a teenaged boy to support, but she and Ezekiel are managing. Until Ezekiel undertakes a secret crusade to rewrite history.
His quest will take him under the wall and into a city teeming with ravenous undead, air pirates, criminal overlords, and heavily armed refugees. And only Briar can bring him out alive.
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- source: Mario Acevedo, bestselling author of Jailbait Zombie
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Starred review from August 31, 2009
Maternal love faces formidable challenges in this stellar steampunk tale. In an alternate 1880s America, mad inventor Leviticus Blue is blamed for destroying Civil War–era Seattle. When Zeke Wilkes, Blue’s son, goes into the walled wreck of a city to clear his father’s name, Zeke’s mother, Briar Wilkes, follows him in an airship, determined to rescue her son from the toxic gas that turns people into zombies (called rotters and described in gut-churning detail). When Briar learns that Seattle still has a mad inventor, Dr. Minnericht, who eerily resembles her dead husband, a simple rescue quickly turns into a thrilling race to save Zeke from the man who may be his father. Intelligent, exceptionally well written and showcasing a phenomenal strong female protagonist who embodies the complexities inherent in motherhood, this yarn is a must-read for the discerning steampunk fan.
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Priest (Fathom, 2008, etc.) bravely, and successfully, ventures into steampunk and zombie-horror territory.
The action takes place in an alternate-history version of 1880s Seattle. In Priest's variant, the Klondike gold rush came decades early. In 1863, Seattle scientist Leviticus Blue invented a massive steam-powered machine (Dr. Blue's Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine) to drill for gold through thick ice. When tested, it went out of control and wreaked havoc throughout Seattle, destroying several buildings and killing dozens. Soon after, a mysterious gas, the Blight, turned many who breathed it into predatory zombies called"rotters." Sixteen years later, Blue's widow Briar and son Zeke have little beyond a ruined family reputation. When Zeke impulsively decides to revisit walled-off Seattle to find proof that his father wasn't a villain, Briar follows him into the rotter-infested city. Priest, a Seattle resident, delivers a fast-moving story filled with cool steampunk technology and scary zombies. Fans of science fiction will find much to enjoy here.
An impressive and auspicious genre-hopping adventure.(COPYRIGHT (2009) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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Priests steampunk novel set in Civil Warera Seattle begins rather confusingly, with a historian interviewing the protagonist, Briar Blue. It becomes obvious that Briar is hiding something dark and ugly in her past that she is unwilling to discuss even with her son, Zeke. The horror-mystery mood deepens when Zeke sets out to discover more about his father, the man who created the machine that decimated downtown Seattle and ripped open a vein of Blight gas, which turns those who breathe it into the living dead. Zombies, underground societies, mad scientists, and war dirigibles pervade a ruined Seattle lacking any organized justice system and awash in vigilantes trying to fill the law-enforcement vacuum. Readers looking for mere historical fiction or sf may be disappointed, but those interested in how technology could have changed had the Civil War lasted longer will appreciate some interesting ideas on that topic. Meanwhile, the characters are captivating enough to make finding out what Zeke discovers and why his mother has hidden her past from him quite compelling.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)
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