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Machine Of Death by Malki, David; Bennardo, Mathew; North, Ryan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Machine Of Death about?

"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. It didnt give you the date and it didnt give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die." The problem with the machine is that nobody really knew how it worked, which wouldnt actually have been that much of a problem if the machine worked as well as we wished it would. But the machine was frustratingly vague in its predictions: dark, and seemingly delighting in the ambiguities of language. OLD AGE, it had already turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or shot by a bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machine captured that old-world sense of irony in death you can know how its going to happen, but youll still be surprised when it does. "The realization that we could now know how we were going to die had changed the world: people became at once less fearful and more afraid. Theres no reason not to go skydiving if you know your sliver of paper says BU

Who reads Machine Of Death?

Author

Malki, David; Bennardo, Mathew; North, Ryan

Publisher

Machines Of Death

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction