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In "Mainspring," Jay Lake has created a literal clockwork Earth and universe. The Earth and sun rotate and revolve on massive clockwork gears. But the spring is winding down and needs to be rewound. As so often happens in fantasy novels, a young, unassuming ordinary person is somehow chosen to save the day. In this case, it is a young clockmaker's apprentice who must travel from New England to Antarctica where the axis of the Earth protrudes and he can gain access to the mainspring. The story is set in an alternative world around 1900 with Queen Victoria still on the throne. He has many adventures and meets many people different from our world. Their motivations are not always clear, which diminished the book somewhat for me, but it is still a fun adventure tale.