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Original Title:	Mainspring
ISBN:	0765317087 (ISBN13: 9780765317087)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Clockwork Earth #1
Literary Awards:	Sidewise Award Nominee for Alternate History (2007)

Mainspring (Clockwork Earth #1)

Jay Lake

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.22 | 2161 Users | 287 Reviews

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Jay Lake's first trade novel is an astounding work of creation.  Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself.

Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker's apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster to the planet will ensue if it's not rewound. From innocence and ignorance to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to fulfill the commandment of his God.

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Title	:	Mainspring (Clockwork Earth #1)
Author	:	Jay Lake
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	June 12th 2007 by Tor Books (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Steampunk. Fantasy. Fiction. Alternate History

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The core conceit of Mainspring imagines that the solar system is actually a gigantic orrey, and that the movements of the stars, planets, and the earth itself are all controlled through a sort of deistic clockwork, giving physical form to the ages-old watchmaker analogy of creation. When the mainspring of the earth begins to run down, the archangel Gabriel engages young Hethor Jacques, a teenaged clockmakers apprentice, to find the Key Perilous and rewind creation. As this cunningly-plotted

Jay Lake wrote one of my favourite short stories in the Steampunk anthology, so I was really expecting better from this book -- but unfortunately, it really didn't do it for me. Hethor is your standard intrepid boy hero with hardly any characterisation, there's no smooth character development, his love interest is preternaturally supportive and understanding and flawless, the ending left me unfulfilled, the writing felt stilted and overly-formal at times, and I had a really hard time just

I'm honestly disappointed that Goodreads doesn't allow me to give this 0 stars, because I would if I could. It's beyond me how anybody could genuinely enjoy this book, let alone barely tolerate it. The list of bad things I have to say about Jay Lake's "novel" is infinite, but I'll just give my main complaints.The book starts off with a decent amount of potential, setting it up with a classic YA "chosen one" scenario. Then it spirals into what I can only describe as the ninth circle of hell. This

I have a long list of expectations when it comes to science fiction. Theres the good (creative concepts, detailed setting, the epic feel of an alternate universe), the bad (execution falling short of the creativity of the idea, dragging pace, botched social commentary) and the whatever (obscure names, interspecial love interests oh, why does it never end awkwardly?). For Jay Lakes Mainspring, he avoids many of the pitfalls of science fiction, but he doesnt nail many of the positives either.

A genre blending mix of magic and steampunk, Jay Lake takes on the creation of the world myth in a very alternate version of a Victorian Era world. I like the world building, but the main character himself tended to be a bit lackluster for most of the novel, haplessly falling into progressive worse situations. While it does represent a coming of age story, very little of it is a direct result of the main character himself. Rather, he is propelled to increasing challenging circumstance that he

I don't know what to think about this. I read about halfway through this, and then by chance read the reviews here on goodreads, and my suspicions were confirmed. I was enjoying it in a way -- the world at least, the ideas -- but I couldn't enjoy the characters because there seemed to be very little to them. I never got an idea of what drove any particular character or why -- I didn't get enough of a sense of any of them to really like them.Add to that the problems raised in other reviews, and I

So, what if you had a literal clockwork universe in which the earth rotates on an immense brass track driven by gears on top of an equatorial wall?Jay Lake takes this unlikely premise and makes it work, and what's more, makes it the setting for a journey of spiritual realisation by the extremely hapless main character. (Poor guy, he keeps getting falsely accused, cast out, beaten up, robbed, imprisoned, abducted, whipped, abducted, abandoned to die, starved, dropped off cliffs, beaten up,