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The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as automaton)
avg rating 4.22 — 190,808 ratings — published 2007
Phoenix Extravagant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as automaton)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,376 ratings — published 2020
The Clockwork Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as automaton)
avg rating 4.00 — 7,968 ratings — published 2010
The Chemistry of Tears (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as automaton)
avg rating 2.96 — 4,273 ratings — published 2012
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as automaton)
avg rating 4.30 — 884,556 ratings — published 2010
The Cybernetic Tea Shop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,700 ratings — published 2016
Ghost Cities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,550 ratings — published 2024
The Clockwork Trollop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published 2013
The Best of Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.99 — 196,784 ratings — published 2010
The Light at the End of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.02 — 330 ratings — published 2023
Creation: Life and How to Make It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.06 — 345 ratings — published 2000
Automatic Eve (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.66 — 267 ratings — published 2019
La mecánica del corazón (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.60 — 31,939 ratings — published 2007
The Heart of Owl Abbas (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.30 — 80 ratings — published 2018
A Pest Most Fiendish (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.56 — 101 ratings — published 2016
Alice Payne Arrives (Alice Payne, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,095 ratings — published 2018
This Golden Flame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,115 ratings — published 2021
The Ghost and the Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.29 — 105 ratings — published 2012
The Constantine Affliction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.74 — 795 ratings — published 2012
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,369 ratings — published 1969
Skin Deep (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.87 — 68 ratings — published 2018
The Cherry Orchard (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2016
The Chess Machine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.51 — 1,628 ratings — published 2007
Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.23 — 467,740 ratings — published 2013
The Clockwork Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.63 — 366 ratings — published 2010
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 4.55 — 482,757 ratings — published 2013
Skylark (Skylark, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.71 — 5,107 ratings — published 2012
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,140 ratings — published 2012
The Silver Blade (French Revolution, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,163 ratings — published 2009
The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as automaton)
avg rating 3.80 — 21,887 ratings — published 2011
“Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
“I can't get over the fact that Descartes compared the human body to a machine or an automaton."
"The comparison was based on the fact that people in his time were deeply fascinated by machines and the workings of clocks, which appeared to have the ability to function of their own accord. The word 'automaton' means precisely that -- something that moves of its own accord. It was obviously only an illusion that they moved of their own accord. An astronomical clock, for instance, is both constructed and wound up by human hands. Descartes made a point of the fact that ingenious inventions of that kind were actually assembled very simply from a relatively small number of parts compared with the vast number of bones, muscles, nerves, veins and arteries that the human and the animal body consists of. Why should God not be able to make an animal or a human body based on mechanical laws?"
"Nowadays there is a lot of talk about 'artificial intelligence'."
"Yes, that is the automaton of our time...”
― Sophie’s World
"The comparison was based on the fact that people in his time were deeply fascinated by machines and the workings of clocks, which appeared to have the ability to function of their own accord. The word 'automaton' means precisely that -- something that moves of its own accord. It was obviously only an illusion that they moved of their own accord. An astronomical clock, for instance, is both constructed and wound up by human hands. Descartes made a point of the fact that ingenious inventions of that kind were actually assembled very simply from a relatively small number of parts compared with the vast number of bones, muscles, nerves, veins and arteries that the human and the animal body consists of. Why should God not be able to make an animal or a human body based on mechanical laws?"
"Nowadays there is a lot of talk about 'artificial intelligence'."
"Yes, that is the automaton of our time...”
― Sophie’s World
