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Machine Man (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) (Paperback)
$14.20 - Save $0.75 (5%) - RRP $14.95 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Machine Man"A Vintage contemporaries original"--T.p. verso.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 08 September 2011
- Format: Paperback 277 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Science Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780307476890 ISBN 10: 0307476898
- Sales rank: 15,314
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I couldn't write my own summary. Everything I wanted to say was already in the existing one, and couldn't be phrased any better. Very rare to find.
This was a surprisingly humourous book. I did not expect it to be funny. The subject matter is definitely not funny, but the writing made it so.
The subject is definitely one for discussions. Serious discussions surrounding morals, ethics, and potential. If you could replace body parts with "better", artificial ones, would you? Should you? Where do you stop? At what point do you stop being human and become just a machine? Should replacements be done on voluntary basis only?
This was definitely an interesting book. The technical descriptions were kept to a minimum, and yet were detailed enough that someone without engineering education could follow and understand what was being done. I was intrigued at the various inventions produced, and was confused and slightly disgusted by Charlie's behaviour. But it was overall enjoyable. by Sarah Merchant
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