I’m sure both Peart and Anderson are familiar with the previous work, so their plaigarism is not forgiveable. The end result, according to Aaron, is a near total ripoff of Harlan Ellison’s Repent, Harlequin! Said The Ticktockman, but Rushified. Anderson (the Dune spinoffs) has teamed up with Neil Peart to novelize Rush’s latest album, Clockwork Angels. I’m sure a lot of highschool kids in the 1970’s wrote their own short story versions of 2112. Somebody had to write a Rush concept album into book form. When he dies, he gives Marinda a mysterious inheritance: a blank book that she must fill with other people’s stories-and ultimately her own.Ĭlockwork Lives is a steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more, as Marinda strives to change her life from a mere “sentence or two” to a true epic.KEVIN J.

Marinda Peake is a woman with a quiet, perfect life in a small village she long ago gave up on her dreams and ambitions to take care of her ailing father, an alchemist and an inventor. It was a world of airships and alchemy, clockwork carnivals, pirates, lost cities, a rigid Watchmaker who controlled every aspect of life, and his nemesis, the ruthless and violent Anarchist who wanted to destroy it all.Īnderson and Peart have returned to their colorful creation to explore the places and the characters that still have a hold on their imagination. Anderson and legendary Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart created a fabulous, adventurous steampunk world in a novel to accompany the smash Rush concept album of the same name. In Clockwork Angels, #1 bestselling author Kevin J. The mind-bending story is complemented with rich paintings by the five-time Juno Award winner for Best Album Design, Hugh Syme.Ī steampunk Canterbury Tales, and much more. He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he is caught between the grandiose forces of order and chaos.

The newest album by Rush, Clockwork Angels, sets forth a story in Neil Peart’s lyrics that has been expanded by him and Anderson into this epic novel. Anderson and the multiplatinum rock band Rush. A remarkable collaboration that is unprecedented in its scope and realization, this exquisitely wrought novel represents an artistic project between the bestselling science fiction author Kevin J.

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