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Gerrard Cowan is the author of The Machinery trilogy (HarperVoyager UK), a fantasy about a world whose leaders are chosen by a machine - until the machine breaks. The Machinery, The Strategist and The Memory are all available in ebook and print.

Gerrard lives in Ireland with his wife Sarah and their children. His first known work was a collection of poems on monsters, written for Halloween when he was eight; it is sadly lost to civilisation. When he isn't writing strange fantasy books he works as a freelance journalist.

He can be found at gerrardcowan.com, at facebook.com/gerrardcowanauthor and is @GerrardCowan on Twitter.

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	The Machinery 3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Strategist: A Dark High Fantasy Novel of Magic and a Deadly Game of Memory (The Machinery Trilogy Book 2) 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory: A Mesmerizing Epic Fantasy of Monsters and a Quest into the Dark Underworld (The Machinery Trilogy Book 3) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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