This guy has enough ideas crammed in here to write ten different books. He’s like Neal Stephenson, except that instead of having a hard SF premise underneath the shiny, this is shiny all the way down. Steampunk clockmaker, check. Fearless spy who’s retained her skills into old age, check. Zombie engineer clones, check. Literal world ending machinery masquerading as a hive of bees, check. The writing is slick and lovely and carries you along despite the extremely unlikely nature of, well, everything that is happening.