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Elizabeth Barnabus, who leads a double life as herself and her detective brother, sets out to locate a missing aristocrat but runs into trouble with the Patent Office, which is intent on keeping new technologies from being introduced into society.
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Finalist for the 2014 Phillip K. Dick AwardElizabeth Barnabus lives a double life ' as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus.But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better"File Under: Fantasy
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