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  “Goodbye, Safin,” I said, “I'm glad you found your great treasure.”

  And then I stepped back out into the thick night. The boats were waiting.

  Jokja was gone. She was gone. But I was ready to find my way to a new home.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Cassandra Clarke is a speculative fiction writer and occasional teacher living amongst the beige stucco of Houston, Texas.

  She graduated in 2006 from The University of St. Thomas with a bachelor’s degree in English, and in 2008 she completed her master’s degree in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin. Both of these degrees have served her surprisingly well.

  During the summer of 2010, she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop in Seattle, where she enjoyed sixty-degree summer days. Having been born and raised in Texas, this was something of a big deal. She was also a recipient of the 2010 Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund.

  Unlike many authors, Cassandra does not have a resume of peculiar careers. She worked at a Barnes and Noble once – that’s about as exciting as it gets. In her spare time she enjoys drawing, painting, crocheting, cooking, and quilting, because she is secretly an old lady. She will see literally any movie as long as it’s in a theatre. She watches television. She doesn’t play many video games, though.

  STRANGE CHEMISTRY

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  A Strange Chemistry paperback original 2013

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  Copyright © Cassandra Rose Clarke 2013

  Cassandra Rose Clarke asserts the moral right to be

  identified as the author of this work.

  Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York.

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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the

  products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance

  to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely

  coincidental.

  Sales of this book without a front cover may be unauthorized. If this book is

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  eBook ISBN: 978 1 90884 485 9

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  The Automaton's Treasure

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  The Automaton's Treasure

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