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The Alchemy of Stone
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The Alchemy of Stone is a Steampunk fantasy novel by Ekaterina Sedia.It tells the story of Mattie, a clockwork Robot Girl who must save an ancient Dying Race, navigate deadly political intrigue, and resolve an abusive relationship with her creator, all in a city ruled by borderline-Mad Scientist Steampunk Engineers in an uneasy truce with a competing faction of Alchemists. | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel? | |
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Did You Think I Can't Feel?: Mattie's entire story is this question. Unfortunately, the people around her always seem to explicitly or implicitly tell her "yes." | |
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Blood Magic | |
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Blood Magic: Niobe teaches Mattie how to use blood in alchemy. | |
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Land of One City | |
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Land of One City: Ayona is a city-state. | |
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Squishy Wizard | |
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Squishy Wizard: Mattie is an accomplished alchemist, but physically she is very delicate and not made to fight. | |
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Ludd Was Right | |
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Ludd Was Right: The work as a whole doesn't really have this moral (the protagonist is a machine, after all) but it does have some overtones of this. The Mechanics certainly don't make the city a nicer place to live. Some of their opponents who are hurt most by their policies pretty much become straight Luddites. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The gargoyles are freed from the stone, but are now mortal and will die someday. Mattie is free of Loharri, but her key has been lost or possibly destroyed, and she herself has deactivated for want of winding. Also a lot of people are dead and the revolution, while successfully overthrowing the existing power structure, will probably just result in a new system of oppression. | |
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Humans Through Alien Eyes | |
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Humans Through Alien Eyes: Though she is quite human in many ways, Mattie definitely has her own way of seeing the world. The Gargoyles provide an even more alien perspective. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: Mattie begins the story with a lot of hope that she can make a difference... | |
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Magic Versus Science | |
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Magic Versus Science: The city is ruled by a guild of mechanics and a guild of alchemists (read: witches), with the two in constant conflict. Mattie gets caught in the middle as a robot who has learned to do alchemical magic. | |
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Corrupt Church | |
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Corrupt Church: The whole order of the Stone Monks went awry a long time ago. | |
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Cynicism Catalyst | |
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Cynicism Catalyst: The memory of the dead boy who provided Mattie's hair continues to haunt Loharri. | |
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Uncanny Valley | |
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Uncanny Valley: Invoked on two levels with Mattie. She unsettles humans and she is in turn unsettled by mindless automatons. | |
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Master Computer | |
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Master Computer: The Mechanics build a Steampunk version of this. | |
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head | |
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Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Loharri likes to pet Mattie's hair. | |
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Your Soul Is Mine! | |
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Your Soul Is Mine!: Subverted. The Soul Smoker is very much a sympathetic character. | |
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Mind Rape | |
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Mind Rape: Loharri built Mattie's mind, and he doesn't tell her everything about what he put in it for his own ends... | |
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Just a Machine | |
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Just a Machine: Mattie is obviously as intelligent as any human, and is a person; but even though she is legally recognized as one (to some extent), few really respect her autonomy in practice. Even what few friends she has often act surprised to see her exhibit human emotions, and occasionally treat her with little respect. | |
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold | |
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: The Soul Smoker | |
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Urban Legend Love Life | |
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Urban Legend Love Life: The reader is informed repeatedly that despite the fact that Loharri's scar is a little more disfiguring than romantic and that he's something of a Jerkass, he gets all the sex he wants. We only see him with one woman. | |
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Eye of Newt | |
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Eye of Newt: Found in Mattie's lab, and useful for Alchemy in general. Well, eye of sheep, actually... | |
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette | |
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Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Mattie was built to be one. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Mattie's creator, Loharri. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: Mattie, Niobe, Sebastian... Ilmarekh. | |
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Of Corsets Sexy | |
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Of Corsets Sexy: Mattie was made with a built-in corset to give her an attractive shape. | |
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Deus Angst Machina | |
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Deus Angst Machina: Averted. Well, the main character is a machine, and she does angst, and supernatural powers certainly are involved. But generally, though she does have to face a lot of problems, everything that happens to her is consistent and makes sense within the story. | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots | |
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Ridiculously Human Robots: Justified (well, apart from the whole "ridiculously human clockwork robot" thing). Loharri made Mattie very human because he wanted a companion, and not a mere tool or servant. The vast majority of other robots in the setting were not made for such a purpose, and are just mindless machines. | |
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Every Scar Has a Story | |
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Every Scar Has a Story: Loharri's scar is pretty much just there to symbolize his Freudian Excuse abusive childhood. He cut his own face so he wouldn't be beautiful anymore. | |
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Pinball Protagonist | |
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Pinball Protagonist: For much of the novel, Mattie gets swept along by the events and other characters around her. Her seeming inability to influence the world around her, or to be seen as having an agency of her own, are major parts of the story. | |
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Robosexual | |
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Robosexual: Played with in a symbolic way. Mattie is not physically capable of having sex, but other aspects of her mechanism take on sexual meanings for her. She also feels "naked" when her face-mask is removed, exposing her innermost mechanisms. | |
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Dying Race / int_c6e748f1 | |
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