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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (Machine of Death #1) - Community Reviews back

by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, David Malki
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The Golden Darter
The Golden Darter rated it 12 years ago
Humble eBook Bundle 2
sunpig
sunpig rated it 12 years ago
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.
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 13 years ago
'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...
One Book Away From an Episode of Hoarders
Hit or miss bunch of short stories. Most were pretty good.
Deb's books
Deb's books rated it 13 years ago
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...
jalestro
jalestro rated it 13 years ago
Awesome concept, some great stories, some not so great. Overall worth the read.
narfna
narfna rated it 14 years ago
It usually takes me a very long time to get through an anthology simply because anthologies don't have a narrative through-line. Machine of Death doesn't really, either. Technically, most of the stories take place in slightly different versions of the same universe. To employ a bad music metaphor, t...
megancsparks
megancsparks rated it 14 years ago
I love this book, not just for its cool premise (it's a book of short stories about what life would be like if there was a machine that could predict the way you would die - but not when, or how), but also for the fact that due to a massive online effort it managed to hit #1 on Amazon, beating out G...
Page Turning Paula
Page Turning Paula rated it 14 years ago
So I’m not sure how many of you followers are fans of webcomics. I would say I enjoy them quite a bit, I casually read a few – I’ll let their archives build for a month or two then read them all in one day but I routinely read two of them. I cannot start my day without reading Questionable Content (...
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