The world is on the brink of its first world war, but the details are not exactly what you’ve learned in history class. Sure, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife have been assassinated, and a global conflict is brewing. But this one is between two very different factions: the Clankers, who build war machines; and the Darwinists, who rely on the development of new species for their weapons.
Young Prince Aleksander, the would-be heir to
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the Austria-Hungarian throne, is pulled from his bed in the middle of the night following his parents’ murder. As a Clanker, he pilots a war machine to escape his own countryfolk who have turned on him. Facing enemies at every turn, he finds that uncovering loyalties or foes becomes even more difficult.
Then he meets Deryn, who has recently joined the air service and is serving aboard the Leviathan, the Darwinists’ flying whale ship. Like
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