Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories about People Who Know How They Will Die
Format: ebook
ISBN:
2940011863608 (0011863609)
Publish date: November 2nd 2010
Publisher: Bearstache Books
Pages no: 452
Edition language: English
Series: Machine of Death (#1)
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Lots of clever stories based around a single, fascinating premise. I had to take a break half-way though becuse it was making me think too much about mortality.
'Machine of Death's premise is pretty great, inspired by a Dinosaur Comics gag, its about a world where a device with only a blood sample will predict how you will die. The stories all share the same premise, but don't adhere to a single universe, which helps keep the collection from getting repetit...
Hit or miss bunch of short stories. Most were pretty good.
I usually rate the stories in an anthology individually, but I'm not going to this time because there are so many (34), they're all short (won't gain anything by skipping any) and I think it's best served by one rating. I do wish the author names had been at the beginning of each story instead of ju...