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Winding the Mainspring

By Jay Lake Mainspring dropped into my lap fully formed. At least in a sense. Book ninjas did not deliver the manuscript to my desk all complete and nicely formatted, of course. Doing that is the work of any novelist. But the idea, now there is another story. I’ve always been fascinated by clockwork, machines,…