I recently bought the City of Clocks. I think anyone who likes and very factionalized, political setting will probably like this setting. To me personally it reminded me of Fading Suns, because of it's broad amount of factions and noble houses, it's amount of setting and history detail.

Seems like I remember reading about this book years ago when it was on its way... then never saw it materialize.
I remember it sounding very cool... but now I forget why.
Still... cheap enough to go have a look.

Quote from: Simlasa;806172Seems like I remember reading about this book years ago when it was on its way... then never saw it materialize.
I remember it sounding very cool... but now I forget why.
Still... cheap enough to go have a look.

Yep, it had a complicated history, but some people picked it up again. It got kickstartered.

Short summary:

It's an industrialized fantasy setting. It start of with a 10 page history about humanity overthrowing an ancient powerful race and becoming in charge of the city of Altepetl. It described several booms and busts of human civilization. From barbarism to an enlightened era of democracy and in the end industrialisation and becoming more of a police state.

After that it tells you about the three factions in parliament (owls, roosters and hawks) the four different races (the insectoid Geks, the artificial Constructs, the humans and the almost human mysterious Sentenni) and some other info about religion, the military, technology etc.

It provides more info about all of the city 30+ districts. The city itself is divided in four quadrants.Another chapter is about all of the city factions: agrarians, cabal (mystery cult), clergy, construct rights league (yep even robots have rights), engineers, librarians, merchants, mortists (study the dead), soldat etc. Then nine noble houses in the same fashion as Game of Thrones or Fading Suns. One house is very honor driven, another house likes spycraft, another house are hedonists etc.  

And then some more. It's too much to mention really.

James Knevitt is a hell of a gamer and a good guy in general.  City of Clocks is terrific.