I'm not a big fan of anthologies, because most of the time the story quality varies and sometimes you plow through a story just to get to the next. Not so in this book. Not a single story fails to draw you into its little world. I'm amazed at how all the writers took a single theme and ran with it, ...
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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...
Awesome concept, some great stories, some not so great. Overall worth the read.
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...
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...
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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