Title: The Machine
Title Record # 1568223
Author: James Smythe
Date: 2013-04-11
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Current Tags: near future (1), science fiction (1), memory (1) Add Tags
Author: James Smythe
Date: 2013-04-11
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: From the publisher's website:
Haunting memories defined him. The machine took them away. She vowed to rebuild him. From the author of The Testimony comes a Frankenstein for the twenty-first century.Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She came here to rebuild her life following her husband's return from the war. His memories haunted him but a machine promised salvation. It could record memories, preserving a life that existed before the nightmares.
Now the machines are gone. The government declared them too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back, that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece.
A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love.
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Current Tags: near future (1), science fiction (1), memory (1) Add Tags
Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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Nomination | 2014 Kitschies | Red Tentacle (Best Novel) |
Finalists | 2014 Clarke | Best Science Fiction Novel |
Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Machine | 2013-04-11 | James Smythe | Blue Door | 978-0-00-742860-1 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
321 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
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The Machine | 2013-04-11 | James Smythe | Blue Door | 978-0-00-749147-6 | £12.99?£: UK pound |
328 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Machine | 2013-04-11 | James Smythe | Blue Door | 978-0-00-742861-8 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Machine | 2014-01-16 | James Smythe | Blue Door | 978-0-00-750750-4 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
319 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
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The Machine | 2017-01-31 | James Smythe | Blue Door | 978-0-00-821433-3 | £7.99?£: UK pound |
328 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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Reviews
- Review by Adam Roberts (2014) in Strange Horizons, 28 April 2014