The Clockwork Man

Odle, Edwin Vincent

ISBN 10: 1935869639 / ISBN 13: 9781935869634

Editore: Hilobooks, 2013

Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G1935869639I2N00

Riassunto:

Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a "clockwork man" appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Comical yet mind-blowing hijinks ensue.

Considered the first cyborg novel, The Clockwork Man was first published in 1923 ? the same year as Karel Capek's pioneering android play, R.U.R.

Informazioni sull'autore:

Edwin Vincent Odle (1890?1942) was founding editor of the British short-story magazine Argosy, and a member of avant-garde author Dorothy Richardson's circle. Odle's only other science fiction novel was never published, and is now lost.

Annalee Newitz is editor-in-chief of the science fiction and science blog io9. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013) and Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (2006).

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Titolo: The Clockwork Man
Casa editrice: Hilobooks
Data di pubblicazione: 2013
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: As New
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket