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« There are no strings on me…
Looks like the world’s been born on one more rainy day… »

It’s all decided for us..

October 27, 2010

 I have been a fan of Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North for a few years now.   Earlier this morning I saw the blurb for the new anthology Machines of Death on his page.  The anthology is based on an idea T-Rex had a few years ago for a book about a machine that would tell you how you were going to die.spacer

The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you were going to die. It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. It let people know how they were going to die.” MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die.”

Featuring stories by: Randall Munroe * Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw * Tom Francis * Camille Alexa * Erin McKean * James L. Sutter * and many others. Featuring illustrations by: Kate Beaton * Kazu Kibuishi * Aaron Diaz * Jeffrey Brown * Scott C. * Roger Langridge * Karl Kerschl * Cameron Stewart * and many others.

Machine of Death is for sale on Amazon.com  (as I write this the book is number one on Amazon’s best seller list – score one for internet based publishing)  You can preview artwork and read four stories from the book in PDF here.  

If you need a kindle version just follow the instructions on the Machine of Death website.  Since the hard copy book won’t ship for a few days and the first four stories were very good, I am (impatiently) waiting to see if they have an eBook version for Kahuna’s (okay for my) iPhone and I’ll update the post once I find out. 

Kit

Posted in art, book reviews, books, comics | Tags: anthologies, david malki, dinosaur comics, e books, internet publishing, machine of death, matthew bennardo, ryan north, t rex

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