{"product_id":"the-clockwork-man-isbn-9780262543439","title":"The Clockwork Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn the first-ever novel about a cyborg, a machine-enhanced man from a multiverse of the far future visits 1920s England.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1920s England, a strange being crashes a village cricket game. After some glitchy, jerky attempts to communicate, this creature reveals that he is a machine-enhanced human from a multiverse thousands of years in the future. The mechanism implanted in his skull has malfunctioned, sending him tumbling through time onto the green grass of the cricket field. Apparently in the future, at the behest of fed-up women, all men will be controlled by an embedded “clockwork,” camouflaged with hats and wigs. Published in 1923, \u003ci\u003eThe Clockwork Man\u003c\/i\u003e—the first cyborg novel—tells the story of this odd time traveler’s visit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSpending time with two village couples about to embark upon married life, the Clockwork Man warns that because men of the twentieth century are so violent, sexist, and selfish, in the not-too-distant future they will be banned from physical reality. They will inhabit instead a virtual world—what we’d now call the Singularity—in which their every need is met, but love is absent. Will the Clockwork Man’s tale lead his new friends to reconsider technology, gender roles, sex, and free will?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOvershadowed in its own time by Karel Čapek’s sensational 1923 play \u003ci\u003eR.U.R\u003c\/i\u003e., about a robot uprising, \u003ci\u003eThe Clockwork Man\u003c\/i\u003e is overdue for rediscovery.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnnalee Newitz is the author of \u003ci\u003eFour Lost Cities\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Another Timeline\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and\u003ci\u003eAutonomous\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), which won the Lambda Award, and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Terraformers\u003c\/i\u003e (forthcoming). As a science journalist, they are a contributing opinion writer for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and have a column in \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e. They are also the co-host of the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct. Previously, they were the founder of \u003ci\u003eio9\u003c\/i\u003e, and served as the editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eGizmodo\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e Series Foreword vii\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Radical Future of \u003ci\u003eThe Clockwork Man \u003c\/i\u003exiii\u003cbr\u003eAnalee Newitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Coming of the Clockwork Man 1\u003cbr\u003e2 The Wonderful Cricketer 19\u003cbr\u003e3 The Mystery of the Clockwork Man 33\u003cbr\u003e4 Arthur Withers Thinks Things Out 51\u003cbr\u003e5 The Clockwork Man Investigates Matters 69\u003cbr\u003e6 \"It was not so, it is not so, and, indeed, God forbid it should be so.\" 87\u003cbr\u003e7 The Clockwork Man Explains Himself 109\u003cbr\u003e8 The Clock 125\u003cbr\u003e9 Gregg 139\u003cbr\u003e10 Last Appearance of the Clockwork Man 159\"An excellent example of the promise of the Radium Age series, giving deserved attention to a hilarious and prescient work of science fiction that has almost been forgotten.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eShelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Fluidity versus fixedness as markers of peace versus conflict is a strikingly resonant argument to find in a novel that’s just under a century old, and it more than justifies time spent in the company of \u003ci\u003eThe Clockwork Man\u003c\/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAbout the Radium Age Series:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Joshua Glenn’s admirable Radium Age series [is] devoted to early- 20th-century science fiction and fantasy.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e— \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Long live the Radium Age.”\u003cbr\u003e— \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It’s an attractive crusade. […] Glenn’s project is well suited to providing an organizing principle for an SF reprint line, to the point where I’m a little surprised that I can’t think of other similarly high-profile examples of reprint-as-critical-advocacy. ” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Neglected classics of early 20th-century sci-fi in spiffily designed paperback editions.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “New editions of a host of under-discussed classics of the genre.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eTor.com\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Shows that ‘proto-sf’ was being published much more widely, alongside other kinds of fiction, in a world before it emerged as a genre and became ghettoised.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBSFA Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A huge effort to help define a new era of science fiction.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransfer Orbit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An excellent start at showcasing the strange wonders offered by the Radium Age.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaximum Shelf\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e“Edwin Vincent Odle’s ominous, droll, and unforgettable \u003ci\u003eThe Clockwork Man\u003c\/i\u003e is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJonathan Lethem, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“It is a striking and original book, and there is a notable sermon in it for those who can dissociate sermons from long faces.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bookman\u003c\/i\u003e (1923)\u003c\/b\u003eE. V. Odle (1890–1942) was a Bloomsbury-adjacent magazine editor in London.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300872016101,"sku":"NP9780262543439","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543439.jpg?v=1767738712","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-clockwork-man-isbn-9780262543439","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}