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A comic-book writer obsesses over clockwork systems, embodied by his memories of a visit to a gigantic clockwork citadel. The obsession belies a deeper fear: a dread of the passing of time and the inevitability of endings.
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Steampunk note: though this story lacks the Victorian aesthetic or historical focus of many steampunk works, and except for the clockwork citadel there is little sense of science fiction or fantasy, Clockwork's central motif of intricate and fantastic clockwork machinery plays heavily with the stylistic themes of steampunk fiction.
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- 2003 honourable mention Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Short Story
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