The Machine - Paperback - 9780007507504

Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents.Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory.Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box. She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece.A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love.

• | Author: James Smythe
• | Publisher: Borough Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 16, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 000750750X
• | ISBN-13: 9780007507504