A Hidden Civilization Lives Inside London. It's Not Human | Sci-Fi Story

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Disgraced astronomer Lord Oswin Ashmole thinks he is testing a new lens on the London skyline; instead, the glass reveals spiderlike beings moving through worked iron, from tram viaducts to hidden wall braces. The discovery leads him to a charitable hospital where injured laborers are being displayed as miracles of modern recovery, even as something in the building’s columns, bedframes, and surgical rooms listens back. Joined by a wounded boilermaker who knows the cost of that “mercy,” Oswin is pulled into a nightmare of rebuilt bodies, iron-threaded wards, and an exhibition tower mea...