Machine Man
Language: English
Published by Vintage August 2011, 2011
- Softcover
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- Title
- Machine Man
- Author
- Max Barry
- Publisher
- Vintage August 2011
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307476898
- ISBN 13
- 9780307476890
- Series
- Book 55 of 248: Vintage Contemporaries
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction & Mystery
Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon.
A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
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About the Author
Max Barry began removing parts at an early age. In 1999, he successfully excised a steady job at tech giant HP in order to upgrade to the more compatible alternative of manufacturing fiction. While producing three novels, he developed the online nation simulation game NationStates, as well as contributing to various open source software projects and developing religious views on operating systems. He did not leave the house much. For Machine Man, Max wrote a website to deliver pages of fiction to readers via email and RSS. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife and two daughters, and is 38 years old. He uses vi.
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