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Synopsis
TCM is cited by B. Stableford, Romance, as a thoughtful work featuring a visitor who accidentally travels from a far-future time to ours; the visitor has been agumented by "a 'clock' which regulates his thought and metabolism" Note: Look for TCM in Stableford by title, not author. Edwin Vincent Odle is remarkable both for his obscurity and fame. The Clockwork Man is considered the first appearance of a cyborg in science fiction literature; his only other novel was never published and has been lost. His work has been apocryphally attributed to a pseudonymous Virginia Woolf. He was also the founding editor of Argosy, the English short story magazine.
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Review
"Edwin Vincent Odle's ominous, droll, and unforgettable THE CLOCKWORK MAN is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick. Considered with them, it suggests an alternate lineage for SF, springing as much from G.K. Chesterton's sensibility as from H.G. Wells's." -- Jonathan Lethem (2013)
"This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the rejection of the 'rational' future and the conservation of the humanity of man. Of the many works of scientific romance that have fallen into utter obscurity, this is perhaps the one which most deserves rescue." -- Brian Stableford
"Perhaps the outstanding scientific romance of the 1920s." -- "Anatomy of Wonder"
About the Author
Edwin Vincent Odle (1890--1942) was founding editor of the British short-story magazine Argosy, and a member of avant-garde author Dorothy Richardson's circle. Odle's only other science fiction novel was never published, and is now lost. Annalee Newitz is editor-in-chief of the science fiction and science blog io9. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013) and Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (2006).
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