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Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die

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"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 kno ...more
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Published October 13th 2010 by Machines of Death
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הרבה סיפורים קצרים של כותבים שונים כשהנושא המשותף הוא מכונה שיכולה לחזות כיצד האדם ימות, אם כי לפעמים בצורה מעורפלת או אפילו אירונית.

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