Ariele Sieling – [The Sagittan Chronicles 02] – The Clock Winked (epub)
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Name: Ariele Sieling – [The Sagittan Chronicles 02] – The Clock Winked (epub)
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Title: The Clock Winked (The Sagittan Chronicles Book 2)
Author: Ariele Sieling
Language: English
Year: 2013
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: HiLoBooks
ISBN: 9781935869634
Total pages: 141 str.
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Years from now, advanced beings known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these marvelous devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live prfectly regulated lives. However, if one of these devices should ever go awry, a "clockwork man" from the future might turn up in the 1920s, perhaps at a cricket match in a small English village.
Considered the first cyborg novel, The Clockwork Man was first published in 1923 – the same year as Karel Capek’s pioneering android drama, R.U.R.
"This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the rejection of the ‘rational’ future and the conservation of the humanity of man. Of the many works of scientific romance that have fallen into utter obscurity, this is perhaps the one which most deserves rescue." [Brian Stableford, Scientific Romance in Britain, 1890-1950]
"Perhaps the outstanding scientific romance of the 1920s." [Anatomy of Wonder, Neil Barron, ed. (1995)]
"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 sfF, springing as much from G.K. Chesterton’s sensibility as from H. G. Wells’s." [Jonathan Lethem]
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The Radium Age Science Fiction Series #8
Series Foreword by Joshua Glenn
The First Cyborg and the First Singularity (Introduction by Annalee Newitz)
Cover illustration by Michael Lewy
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