James Smythe was born in London in He has worked as a computer game writer and currently teaches creative writing. He also writes a blog for the Guardian. The Machine is his fourth novel and is shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award Previous novels include The Testimony and a science fiction series including The Explorer and The Echo/5(68). · Purge, Commit, Replenish: The Machine. by James Smythe. Accidents happen. Would that they didn’t, but they do, and that’s the truth. Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · Read "The Machine" by James Smythe available from Rakuten Kobo. Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award , this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK’s brightest /5.
James Smythe was born in London in He has worked as a computer game writer and currently teaches creative writing. Previous novels include The Testimony, The Explorer (published by Voyager) and The Machine. The Machine was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award. He lives in London. Book Review | The Machine by James Smythe. Beth lives alone on a desolate housing estate near the sea. She came here to rebuild her life following her husband's return from the war. His memories haunted him but a machine promised salvation. It could record memories, preserving a life that existed before the nightmares. Now the machines are gone. Like so many novels published throughout the year, the release of James Smythe's The Machine has come and gone without much discussion. Of the six and a half reviews* I found in my three minute skim of the internet, all were lavish in their praise of the novel, noting that this was Smythe's best books and one of the best novels of
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. Read more Read less © James Smythe (P) HarperCollins Publishers. The Machine by James Smythe is a dark, dreamlike (or maybe that should be nightmarish) delight to read. There's something ineffable about it, yet so grounded in reality. Smythe is undoubtedly a talented author, and I look forward to appreciating his work again soon. Highly Recommended. JA. And then the malevolent Machine. Not so much a character as a menacing presence - also a shell, at the very edge of sentient life. Darkness and a twist at the end. review 2: The first one by Mr Smythe that I've read and I loved the concept and writing.
0コメント