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About the Book

About the Book

Machine

A mind-bending fable of science, philosophy, art, history and love.

55 million years ago, during the early Eocene period, a sudden burst of lightning frightened a herd of small prehistoric horses. In the ensuing panic, one of the horses, a five-year-old mare no bigger than a fox terrier, fell into a lake and drowned. On June 23rd, 1975, in Austin, Texas, a drop of oil combusted in a car engine. This tiny explosion happened just as the Ford Pinto, driven by a one-armed hitchhiker named Jimmy, pulled into the parking lot of the Timber Creek Apartments, home to the young woman in the passenger seat, a 22 year-old biology student named Clarissa Sanders. Machine is the story of the hidden connections between these two seemingly unrelated events. Omnivorous in its pursuit of knowledge --- every single one of its 88 pages a daring mixture of fact and fiction, science and art --- this short novel relentlessly pursues one of life s great mysteries: where does Fate end and coincidence begin?

Machine
by Peter Adolphsen

  • Publication Date: May 28, 2008
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 85 pages
  • Publisher: MacAdam/Cage
  • ISBN-10: 1596922877
  • ISBN-13: 9781596922877