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The Machine by James Smythe; Overdrive Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Machine about?
Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents. Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared 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 and 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.
Who reads The Machine?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- James Smythe; Overdrive Inc
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780008214333
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (417 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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