Posted: 3/18/2013 1:19:41 PM EDT
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I picked up a copy of the Machine of Death, read half of it yesterday and then couldn't sleep all night last night.
My brain was going crazy thinking about if it was a real machine and if I would want to know, or know how my family dies, then got thinking about death in general for awhile. Damn book, 3 hours sleep and a whole day of work, now I'm beat. |
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All of the stories center around a device which, when provided with a blood sample, can identify the way a person will die. The machine relays this information by printing a short word or phrase, which serves as the title of each story, on a small card. The machine is never wrong, but often vague or cryptic.... Sounds good  |
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All of the stories center around a device which, when provided with a blood sample, can identify the way a person will die. The machine relays this information by printing a short word or phrase, which serves as the title of each story, on a small card. The machine is never wrong, but often vague or cryptic.... Sounds good
Some of the stories are hilarious, some are poignant, some are nerve-wracking, and a few just kind of stop and make you think. One of my friends I went to middle and high school with (James Sutter) wrote one of the short stories. Randall Munroe (he writes and draws the XKCD webcomic) did another titled "?". I've been thinking about writing one and seeing if James can get me in touch with the editors. I love the concept. |
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You start reading it expecting a bunch of stories about ironic deaths.
During some of them though the machine isn't even the main part of the story, it just lends to how the story develops. It is pretty interesting, I am a big fan of books like that, with chapters composing of separate stories all occurring within the same universe. |