The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople single work   short story   romance   science fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Tic-Toc Boy of Constantinople
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In a Constantinople under siege, a man with a clockwork heart and steampowered lungs breaks away from his over-protective mother, only to fall into the hands of enemies who are determined to find out how he works.

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  • Steampunk note: Featured in an anthology of steampunk romance fiction. Set in a alt.history Constantinople under siege by the Venetians and defending themselves with clockwork armies, Neophytos is part man, part machine: his heart is clockwork and his lungs run on steam. He thinks himself unique, but comes to realise that he is part of an accelerated weapons race, where the Venetians seek the secrets of Turkish clockwork soldiers, and the Turkish people seek to keep ahead by building human-clockwork hybrids.

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    y separately published work icon Kisses by Clockwork Liz Grzyb (editor), Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014 7631913 2014 anthology short story science fiction romance

    'Putting the steamy back into steampunk. 105,000 words of steampunk romance, edited by the award-winning Liz Grzyb.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

    Nedlands : Ticonderoga Publications , 2014
    pg. 203-222

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