- Forecasting, Death, Causes, Fiction
The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. No dates, no details. Just a slip of paper with a few words spelling out your ultimate fate -- at once all-too specific and maddeningly vague.
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Contemporary, open-ended, effortless and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Ryan North
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Machines of Death, Bearstache Books
- Editions
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780982167175
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