The Machinery Trilogy

Ruin is coming. For ten millennia, the Machinery Selected the greatest leaders of humanity, bringing glory to the Overland. But the Machinery came with a Prophecy: in the 10,000th year, it will break, and Ruin will come. Now, the Prophecy is being fulfilled. The Machinery has Selected a terrible being to rule the Overland, an immortal who cares little for the humans she governs. Some call her the Strategist. Others call her the One. Everyone knows her as Mother. Mother will do anything to find the Machinery and finally bring Ruin. But only one creature knows where the Machinery is - the Dust Queen, an ancient being of three bodies and endless power. And if Mother wants the Dust Queen''s help, she must ready herself for a game. A game from older times. A game of memory. A game in which mortals are nothing more than pawns.

About the author

Gerrard Cowan is a writer and editor from Derry, in North West Ireland. He is the author of The Machinery and The Strategist, the first two books in The Machinery Trilogy.

Gerrard studied History and English Literature at Trinity College and International Relations at King’s College. His first known work was a collection of poems on monsters, written when he was eight; it is sadly lost to civilisation. He lives in South East London with his wife Sarah and son Finn.

Product details

• Authors: Gerrard Cowan, Cowan Gerrard
• Publisher: Harper Voyager
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.01.2018
• EAN: 9780008160227
• ISBN: 978-0-00-816022-7
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Machinery Trilogy; The Machinery Trilogy
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Fantasy, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Political, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Fantasy / Epic, FICTION / Fantasy / Historical, Speculative fiction, Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classic fiction: general and literary, Dark;Chosen One;Magic;Masks;High;Politics;Power