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Availability:In StockContributor:Edwin Vincent Odle, Annalee Newitz (Introduction by)Series:Radium Age Science FictionPublish date:2013-09-03Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:HilobooksISBN-13:9781935869634ISBN-10:1935869639UPC:9781935869634Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionBook Topic:SteampunkSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCD20JCPP5
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:HilobooksISBN-13:9781935869634ISBN-10:1935869639UPC:9781935869634Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Science FictionBook Topic:SteampunkSize:7.40 x 5.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.3902Product ID:SCD20JCPP5
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).

Publisher: Hilobooks

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