The Clockwork Man

Edwin Vincent Odle

ISBN 10: 1935869639 / ISBN 13: 9781935869634

Published by Cursor Sep 2013, 2013

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Clockwork Man
• Publisher: Cursor Sep 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935869639
• ISBN 13: 9781935869634
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 188W x 128H x 15D millimeters 188 millimeters width by 128 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 173 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).