Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
165
Language
English
Published
Aug 10, 2015
Publisher
Business and Leadership Publishing
Description
In this strange novel by E.V.Odle, (and not Virginia Woolfe's pseudonym, as it has been suggested), creatures called the Makers install clockwork into some men's heads — allowing them to move throughout time and space at will, but removing their freedom at the same time.
In the meantime, women and a few remaining men are left on Earth, trying to create a perfect society.
This is a very early story about cyborgs -1923- but that is somehow a prophecy of our future. Are we becoming too dependent on technology? What are we willing to give up in exchange? Our freedom?
A marvellous and somehow forgotten novel, that is as prophetic as 1984, We and Brave New World... A must read if you like dystopias.
The author, Edwin Vincent Odle (1890-1942) was the first editor of an English magazine, The Argosy from 1926 to about 1938, and brother to Dorothy Richardson's husband, Allan Odle.
In the meantime, women and a few remaining men are left on Earth, trying to create a perfect society.
This is a very early story about cyborgs -1923- but that is somehow a prophecy of our future. Are we becoming too dependent on technology? What are we willing to give up in exchange? Our freedom?
A marvellous and somehow forgotten novel, that is as prophetic as 1984, We and Brave New World... A must read if you like dystopias.
The author, Edwin Vincent Odle (1890-1942) was the first editor of an English magazine, The Argosy from 1926 to about 1938, and brother to Dorothy Richardson's husband, Allan Odle.
Genres
Science Fiction