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.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.‘Savage, intimate, inexorable’ Nick Harkaway‘The Machine is the work of a young writer with a preternaturally powerful and distinctive voice’ Guardian‘Phenomenal … simply unmissable’ Tor.com‘Extraordinary’ Dazed & Confused‘Reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most macabre’Will Wiles, author of Care of Wooden FloorsJames Smythe was born in London in 1980. 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 2014. Previous novels include The Testimony and a science fiction series including The Explorer and The Echo. The Testimony was awarded Wales Fiction Book of the Year, 2013. He lives in London. He can be found on Twitter @jpsmythe•James is an amazing young talent published by both Blue Door and Voyager. With a projected book per year, James is a novelist who can really deliver.• Reviewers have already likened The Machine to early Ian McEwan, Iain Banks and JG Ballard.•James has received great support from booksellers and bloggers as well as the tech-savvy community for his previous novels, THE TESTIMONY, and THE EXPLORER.• Online presence through Twitter @jpsmythe and james-smythe.com, James knows how to network with the literary community.• James’s fortnightly blog on the fiction of Stephen King (Guardian online) regularly receives some of the highest reader comments for the Guardian Online’s Culture section, exposing him to an ever-growing number of fans.• The Machine is a novel which will appeal to both men and women with the ability to make the cut for the BookerCompetition: JG Ballard, Iain Banks, Nick Harkaway
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