This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00E038BE0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 533 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Benito R. Corral said Great story after great story. In "Great story after great story" according to Benito R. Corral. In 2010, there was quite a lot of buzz around a new anthology entitled Machine of Death which collected stories exploring a single premise; a machine that could predict, without fail, the manner in which you would die. All it needed was a sample of your blood and a tiny slip of paper would have your ultimate fate written on it. I myself never read it but definitely had it on the ever growing TBR pile.. 010, there was quite a lot of buzz around a new anthology entitled Machine of Death which collected stories exploring a single premise; a machine that could predict, without fail, the manner in which you would die. All it needed was a sample of your blood and a tiny slip of paper would have your ultimate fate written on it. I myself never read it but definitely had it on the ever growing TBR pile.. Not as morbid as you might think I have not yet read Machine of Death, but I plan to once I finish this anthology. I grabbed it on impulse, having had a chance to read the first story, and it does not disappoint. Rarely have I read a book that possesses quantity AND quality among the stories, and this one definitely does. Rather than simply highlight the deaths of its various protagonists, authors chose to frame the tales as morality. Really great and hits every emotion Mo Harker I stumbled across this book in a bookstore and wrote the title down to check it out down the road. I found that note awhile ago and ordered the book from Amazon for my Kindle. We have all bought bad books and I think those of us who love short stories and anthologies know it's a crap shoot as to what the book will be like, or how good it will be. We've all bought/read at least one that had just one go
If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published best seller, Machine of Death.The machines started popping up around the world. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. But the machines didn't give dates or specific circumstances - just a single word or phrase. And though the predictions were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. This addictive anthology - sinist