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A couple of weeks ago, I told you about a haunting new novel from Ekaterina Sedia called Alchemy of Stone. It's the tale of a female robot named Mattie who works as a chemist on an alternate world where the industrial revolution is in full swing. Though the engineer who made Mattie has set her free, he refuses to give her the key that winds her mechanical heart. All Mattie wants is control of her own key and a peaceful place to work, but instead she gets caught up in a workers' revolt and her life begins to unravel. The novel was so thought-provoking that I tracked Sedia down and asked her some questions about female robots, politics, and magic. See what she said below. More »
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