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Clara Hope EllwoodTHE WORLDS & THE WORDS
Three living-metal residents converse above a terrace city and misty river valley

SCIENCE FICTION · A ROBOT CIVILISATION

The Sparkborn

A race of robots. Lives of their own.

Meet a civilisation of living robots. Their relationships, discoveries, work and everyday lives belong to a world as rich and complicated as its inhabitants. Explore the Sparkborn through their ecology, social life and the many forms they take.

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Life among the Sparkborn

Three illustrated ways into one civilisation. Begin with the world, its social life, or the people’s embodied lives.

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Ecology

What the World Remembers

The atlas called it lifeless ground. Then the ground changed beneath Soryn Vask’s shadow. Follow a Sparkborn scientist through an ecology of organic and metallic life, from a small observation station to inhabited landscapes and unfamiliar worlds. An illustrated journey through discovery, competing needs and the consequences of living together.

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