The Clockwork Man: The Radium Age Science Fiction Series

Radium Age

by E.V. Odle, Ralph Lister (Narrator)

Several thousand years from now, advanced humanoids known as the Makers will implant clockwork devices into our heads. At the cost of a certain amount of agency, these devices will permit us to move unhindered through time and space, and to live complacent, well-regulated lives. However, when one of these devices goes awry, a "clockwork man" appears accidentally in the 1920s, at a cricket match in a small English village. Comical yet mind-blowing hijinks ensue.

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Published September 10, 2013

About the author

Edwin Vincent Odle is remarkable both for his obscurity and fame. The Clockwork Man is considered the first appearance of a cyborg in science fiction literature; his only other novel was never published and has been lost. His work has been apocryphally attributed to a pseudonymous Virginia Woolf. He was also the founding editor of Argosy, the English short story magazine.