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In a part of the city called the Downside, Randal and Jackson live as far as they can from the Corvidae, the mutated crow-gangs who roam the streets. Jackson is a patchworker, able to fix badly injured people by adding clockwork appendages. Randal is one of the men he helped: now with a clockwork heart, a copper mask, and metal limbs, he is devoted to Jackson but anxious about his own humanity. When a young girl brutalised by the Corvidae lands on their doorstep, Jackson is determined to help her, despite the danger if the gangs find out that she's still alive.
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Steampunk note: This story features fantastical elements and, as the title might suggest, a combination of clockwork, patchwork and ravens in the makeup of mutated people.
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The Fantastic Aurealis Awards
2010
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— Appears in: Antipodean SF , April no. 142 2010;
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The Fantastic Aurealis Awards
2010
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— Appears in: Antipodean SF , April no. 142 2010;
Awards
- 2009 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Science Fiction Division — Best Short Story
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