{"product_id":"the-clockwork-man-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 Overshadowed 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262543439\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202","brand":"E. V. Odle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41839016771765,"sku":"9780262543439","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5a44b595-8bbf-437a-a6d3-26af50d6bece.jpg?v=1646729542","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-clockwork-man-9780262543439","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}