The Clockwork Man,9781935869634

The Clockwork Man

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781935869634
ISBN10: 1935869639
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-09-03
Publisher(s): HiLoBooks
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Coming of the Clockwork Man
Chapter 2: The Wonderful Cricketer
Chapter 3: The Mystery of the Clockwork Man
Chapter 4: Arthur Withers Thinks Things Out
Chapter 5: The Clockwork Man Investigates Matter
Chapter 6: “It was not so, it is not so, and, indeed,God forbid it should be so.”
Chapter 7: The Clockwork Man Explains Himself
Chapter 8: The Clock
Chapter 9: Gregg
Chapter 10: Last Appearance of the Clockwork Man

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