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The Clockwork Man
Edwin Vincent Odle
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Description for The Clockwork Man
Paperback. Series: The Radium Age Science Fiction Series. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 174.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Red Lemonade United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
The Radium Age Science Fiction Series
Condition
New
Weight
174g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781935869634
SKU
V9781935869634
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Ref
99-15
About Edwin Vincent Odle
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Clockwork Man
"Edwin Vincent Odle's ominous, droll, and unforgettable THE CLOCKWORK MAN is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick. Considered with them, it suggests an alternate lineage for SF, springing as much from G.K. Chesterton's sensibility as from H.G. Wells's."
Jonathan Lethem (2013) "This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the ... Read more
Jonathan Lethem (2013) "This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the ... Read more