by Rod Duncan
The Map of Unknown Things
The Queen of All Crows
The Outlaw & the Upstart King
The Fall of the Gas-Lit Empire
The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter
Unseemly Science
The Custodian of Marvels
Backlash
Breakbeat
Burnout
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The cunning needle
An Angry Robot paperback original 2019
Copyright © Rod Duncan 2019
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EBook ISBN 978 0 85766 704 5
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