![]() They are two robots who were revived by Russia’s Peter the Great before his death in 1725, and who have endured through to the millennium despite having to hide their existence from humans and their brethren alike. June’s story is juxtaposed with the century-spanning narrative of Peter and Elena. She’s never told a soul about her inherited secret, and when she does so her patrons withdraw their support and the robots she couldn’t quite prove exist begin to hunt her. The patriarch’s proof is the relic that now hangs around June’s neck, hidden from both her peers and the patrons who financed her world-traveling study of ancient clockwork figures. ![]() ![]() ![]() When she was a young girl, her grandfather told her of a humanoid machine who slaughtered his enemies in a war zone. Wilson’s new book, Clockwork Dynasty, an anthropologist named June Stefanov has dedicated her professional life to chasing family lore. ![]()
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