Like Clockwork is the story of a young spark who has difficulty fitting in with her family and peers because she's only moderately fond of clockwork, while they're completely obsessive (her obsessions lie elsewhere). Over the course of the story, she winds up becoming friends with Goggles, a primarily clockwork (and fully sentient) mech of about 12 feet tall that is now largely ignored by her family for being a little too out of date. They bond over various things and it's really quite heartwarming, and valuable life lessons are learned. Sadly, it does indeed have a Newbury Prize moment, where Goggles sacrifices himself to save her from something dreadful. Happily, she's still a spark, and puts him back together again afterwards.
The Great Machines is a years-later continuation fanfic of the above where Terrible Things are happened to the girl's family/city/everything. Goggles manages to smuggler her out of the city in his extra-large chassis, and they set off to beg assistance from The Great Machines - a council of powerful AI, halfway across the continent. At least, that's how it starts. 50 chapters later...
A Girl In Goggles is a somewhat cracky and more humor-oriented set of side chapters to the fanfic, written by the author, centered around a steamy relationship that develops between the two (courtesy of his boiler). It's primarily lime, but chapters 5 and 8 have full-on lemon scenes. Much is made of the vibrations given off by a properly-tuned engine. The main fic has a few references that can be seen as shout-outs by those who've read both, but never openly acknowledges anything, and makes sense read either way.
and, for mine... Call Not Up What Thou Canst Not Put Down
The Great Machines is a years-later continuation fanfic of the above where Terrible Things are happened to the girl's family/city/everything. Goggles manages to smuggler her out of the city in his extra-large chassis, and they set off to beg assistance from The Great Machines - a council of powerful AI, halfway across the continent. At least, that's how it starts. 50 chapters later...
A Girl In Goggles is a somewhat cracky and more humor-oriented set of side chapters to the fanfic, written by the author, centered around a steamy relationship that develops between the two (courtesy of his boiler). It's primarily lime, but chapters 5 and 8 have full-on lemon scenes. Much is made of the vibrations given off by a properly-tuned engine. The main fic has a few references that can be seen as shout-outs by those who've read both, but never openly acknowledges anything, and makes sense read either way.
and, for mine... Call Not Up What Thou Canst Not Put Down