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Book Review: Metal from Heaven by August Clarke

Cover of Metal from Heaven, by August Clarke, featuring a woman and several other people, seen from behind looking from a forest toward a civilized enclave.

It starts off as a novel interested in worker’s rights…and changes into a novel about anarchy and communes with the equivalent of a pirate town, as we watch Marney grow into who and what she is. It’s a novel that explores Marney’s power and disability, her toxic ability to manipulate Ichorite, that both poisons her and yet is also malleable to her magical power.