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The properties of rooftop air / Tim Powers

In nineteenth-century London, a beggar undergoes an alchemical procedure to increase his intelligence by linking his mind to a collective of homunculi. He must face the dark cost of being bound to a group consciousness controlled by a malevolent clown.
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