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Description edit
"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 didn't give you the date and it didn't give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words... read more
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Characters/People edit
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- Simon
- James
- Johnny
- Jack
- Tommy
- Yukie
- Robin
- Daniel
- Norma
- Pete
- Maggie
- Tsueno
- Julio
- Jill
- Paul
- Timothy
- Rick
- Hanna
- Kelly
- Dr. Eli
- Marie
- Grale
- Frank
- Sid
- Vince
- Davey
- Mr. Armbruster
- Dr. Rosch
- Mitch
- Dunmere
- Phil
- Mr. Slocombe
- Brad
- Jorge
- Mr. Weathington-beech
- Melvin
- Simmons
- Mrs. Murphy
- Helene
- Scott
- Ryan
- Angela
- Billy
- Barb
- Grandpa
- Neil
- Annie
Authors & Contributors edit
- Ryan North (Editor) - Story: "Murder and Suicide, Respectively"
- Matthew Bennardo (Editor) - Story: "Starvation"
- David Malki (Editor) - Story: "Cancer", "Cocaine and Painkillers"
Other Contributors:
- Randall Munroe (Contributor) - Story: "?"
- Camille Alexa (Contributor) - Story: "Flaming Marshmallow"
- Kit Yona (Contributor) - Story: "Fudge"
- Jeffrey C. Wells (Contributor) - Story: "Torn Apart and Devoured by Lions"
- James Foreman (Contributor) - Story: "Heat Death of the Universe"
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Bearstache Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 10/13/2010
ISBN: 0982167121
Page Count: 464
Publisher: Bearstache Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 10/13/2010
ISBN: 0982167121
Page Count: 464
Awards edit
- #1 in Amazon Science Fiction Anthologies (October 2010: Science Fiction Anthology, #1)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Notes for Parents edit
Reading Level: Young AdultsThis book collects stories about a machine that accurately (but with great ambiguity) predicts peoples' deaths. In short, every story in the collection is about death. (Though not every story has a death.) This book might give more sensitive readers nightmares.
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Machine of Death: Home Page
- Machine of Death: Audiobook Podcast
- Machine of Death eBook: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
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