The Fire Opal Mechanism

Fran Wilde

Tom Doherty Associates, Jun 4, 2019 - Fiction - 208 pages

The Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast-paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her Lapidary

Jewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth.

Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it.

When they stumble upon a mysterious clock powered by an ancient jewel, they may discover secrets in the past that will change the future forever.

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What people are saying

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - MillieHennessy - LibraryThing

At first, I was surprised to find this book wasn’t a direct sequel to Jewel; I was hoping to know more about what happened after Lin and Sima’s stories. Well, I got what I wanted, just in a different ...

The Fire Opal Mechanism

User Review  - Publishers Weekly

This standalone sequel to 2016’s The Jewel and Her Lapidary keenly explores a dark age when nearly all the magic gems in the former Six Kingdoms are gone. The kingdom-conquering Pressmen are seizing ...

About the author

Fran Wilde’s short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Nature, and elsewhere. Her debut novel Updraft, first in the Bone Universe series, was published in 2015 to wide acclaim. She blogs about food and genre at Cooking the Books and for the popular social-parenting website GeekMom. She lives in Philadelphia with her family.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Fire Opal Mechanism; Volume 2 of The Jewel Series
• Author: Fran Wilde
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates, 2019
• ISBN: 1250196531, 9781250196538
• Length: 208 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fantasy / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Fantasy / Epic