There’s more to unpack there than the reader initially has a clue about. And yet, at the beginning – the beginning that Ania and Jorit observe and not the place where they personally start – that wasn’t actually the case. In whatever time period they can manage to solve it.Įscape Rating A-: At first, and for a rather long time thereafter, it seems as if the core of The Fire Opal Mechanism is about the freedom of information versus the censorship of it. Even more fascinating, those motives and that resistance turn out to be a bit of misdirection from the real problem that Ania and her reluctant ally-turned-friend, Jorit, need to resolve. Which was both wonderful and frightening, as it was published 4 years ago and therefore written several months at least before that.īut the impulses that move both the Pressmen’s and the Librarian Ania’s resistance to each other are always with us. This turned out to be a whole lot more relevant to the present than I originally expected. At first, that argument seems to be the central tension in The Fire Opal Mechanism. Information may want to be free, but there are always people and institutions working to keep it caged and under their control. When they stumble upon a mysterious clock powered by an ancient jewel, they may discover secrets in the past that will change the future forever. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it. Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Jewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth. The Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast-paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her Lapidary Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo,, Better World Books Published by Tordotcom Publishing on June 4, 2019 The Fire Opal Mechanism (Gem Universe #2) by Fran Wilde
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