Fixture Class by Neil Vickery (.ePUB)
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Fixture Class by Neil Vickery (Four Hundred Floors Book 1)
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Overview: After twelve years repairing the tower, Bridget Duffy opened the wrong machine.
Everything the company told her is a lie. Everything her hands know is true.
Duffy fixes what the Stack breaks: four hundred worked floors of iron, steam, and patient machinery, run by a company that bills the grease and owns the clock. Then a work order sends her crew to a floor that has been closed for eight years, to a machine that never stopped walking its route, and inside its chest plate she finds three human names, scratched there sign-off fashion, generations deep.
The company does not retire its workers. It renders them, and installs what remains. The dead floors are staffed.
When her chief’s final term is called in early, the crew does the one thing the paperwork has no field for. They climb. Past the last live wire, past the fog country, past the garrisons of the faithful dead, toward the single law the company must honor, cast in bronze over the gate: WHAT PASSES THE CROWN IS STRUCK FROM INVENTORY.
Her employer values her at 140 shillings. Collecting her costs 61. Every floor she climbs and every certification she earns moves both numbers, and somewhere above the fog a patient thing with a chain and a white lamp is waiting for the arithmetic to come out right.
She must climb. She intends to outprice them.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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