Book Excerpt for the Day

    "Do you realize," Elizabeth said, mumbling a little, feeling that the words came from a long distance, "that I myself have hardly ever been out of Harwich?"

    "I know," Katarina said.  "The old folks do say the railway changed the world as surely as the constructs did.  Not so destructively, though; as I said, it can't hurt you unless you stand in front of it."

    "Because it can't think for itself," Elizabeth said.

    Katarina gave her a surprised look.  "The constructs can't either.  I thought you realized.  It takes three men each to make them go."

(from Timepiece, by Heather Albano)

  8*/10.  The full review is here.
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