The Fire Opal Mechanism -- Fran Wilde, Paperback Michael W. Watkins Track: 3 - Tears Run

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and her own inner world with a social consciousness that was closely attuned to the 1960s counterculture

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and a husband who's workin' on the railroad--literally

The Fire Opal Mechanism -- Fran Wilde, Paperback Michael W. Watkins Track: 3 - Tears RunThe Fire Opal Mechanism is the fast paced and lively sequel to Fran Wilde's The Jewel and Her Lapidary Jewels and their lapidaries and have all but passed into myth. Jorit, broke and branded a thief, just wants to escape the Far Reaches for something better. Ania, a rumpled librarian, is trying to protect her books from the Pressmen, who value knowledge but none of the humanity that generates it. When they stumble upon a mysterious clock powered by an