![]() ![]() He travels across a lavish and colorful world of steampunk and alchemy, with lost cities, pirates, anarchists, exotic carnivals, and a rigid Watchmaker who imposes precision on every aspect of daily life. ![]() In a young man’s quest to follow his dreams, he is caughtīetween the grandiose forces of order and chaos. The music in Clockwork Angels-the band’s twentieth studio album-tells a wonderful dystopian story, ripe for fleshing out as a full novel. Neil and I wrote a dark-fantasy short story together, “Drumbeats,” but we have always wanted to collaborate on something major, a way we could tie together our imaginations-and we’ve achieved it at last with Clockwork Angels: The Novel. Over more than twenty years, I can point to dozens of my other novels and stories that bear a clear Rush influence (and even, occasionally, offer a little bit of lyrical inspiration in the other direction). (1988), was closely inspired by their album Grace Under Pressure, which also led to a long-standing friendship with Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. I have always drawn writing inspiration from music, and in particular from legendary rock band Rush. Hat’s a line from “Caravan,” the first single from Rush’s new album Clockwork Angels-definitely words to live by. ![]()
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