false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1208785939m/2241476.jpg 2241476 1 A mind-bending fable of science, philosophy, art, history, and love. Fifty-five 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 twenty-two-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 eighty-eight 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? 2247328 25 4 2008 Machine total:17|5:4|4:9|3:4|2:0|1:0| 17 68 40 3 3 1 false false Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Aug 26 08:05:23 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 14:57:35 -0800 2009 Machine seems like a literary narrative exercise in six degrees of separation, though it sometimes reads more like a technical document or science text. I feel this is more a concept book than something to be enjoyed, nonetheless it is kind of quirky and fun and interesting at turns, and at only 85 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 19:04:27 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 06:43:35 -0800 2009
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