Now nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel of2011."
Come inside and take a seat; the show is about to begin...
Outside any city still standing, the Mechanical Circus Tresaulti sets upits tents. Crowds pack the benches to gawk at the brass-and-copper troupe andtheir impossible feats: Ayar the Strong Man, the acrobatic Grimaldi Brothers, fearless Elena and her aerialists who perform on living trapezes. War iseverywhere, but while...