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This is how you die : stories of the inscrutable, infallible, inescapable machine of death / edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki!.
- Title
- This is how you die : stories of the inscrutable, infallible, inescapable machine of death / edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki!.
- Publication
- New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
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| Text | Request in advance | PS648.S5 T48 2013 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 492 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Using the premise of a machine that predicts how, but not where or when, a person will die, the editors cull together the best of the thousands of submissions they received, many of which have unexpected endings.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Old age, surrounded by loved ones / 'Nathan Burgoine -- Rock and roll / Toby W. Rush -- Natural causes / Rhiannon Kelly -- Shiv Sena riot / Ryan Estrada -- Zephyr / George Page III -- Execution by beheading / Chandler Kaiden -- Lazarus Reactor fission sequence / Tom Francis -- Drowning burning falling flying / Grace Seybold -- Conflagration / D.L.E. Roger -- Screaming, crying, alone, and afraid / Daliso Chaponda -- Apitoxin / John Takis -- Blue fever / Ada Hoffmann -- Tetrapod / Rebecca Black -- Machine of death / Karen Stay Ahlstrom -- Monsters from the deep / David Malki -- Toxoplasmosis of the brain; Candidiasis of the esophagus; Candidiasis of the trachea; Candidiasis of the bronchi; Candidiasis of the lungs; Kaposi's sarcoma; Pneumonia; Tuberculosis; Stab wound in the belly; and Bus accident / Gord Sellar -- Cancer / Ryan North -- Two one six / Marleigh Norton -- Blunt force trauma delivered by spouse / Liz Argall -- MEat eater / John Chernega and Bill Chernega -- Made into delicious cheeseburger / Sarah Pavis -- Your choice / Richard Salter -- In battle, alone and soon forgotten / Ed Turner -- Lake Titicaca / M. Bennardo -- In sleep / Ren Warom -- Cecile / Hollan Lane -- La mort d'un roturier / Martin Livings -- Not applicable / Kyle Schonefeld -- Peacefully / M.J. Leitch -- Old age / Brigita Orel -- Furnace / Erika Hammerschmidt.
- List of comic strips -- Bear / KC Green -- Old age / Ryan Pequin -- Dracula / Anthony Clark -- Got too extreme / KC Green -- Skydiving / Kris Straub -- Uswise decision / KC Green -- Massive blood loss / Ryan Pequin -- Abandoned in space / KC Green -- Mauled / Kris Straub -- Poison / KC Green -- Bite wound / Kris Straub -- Eaten alive by insects / Ryan Pequin -- Koala bear (first appearance of machine of death) / Ryan North.
- ISBN
- 9781455529391
- 1455529397
- 9781619698390 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781455529407 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2012051311
- OCLC
- 828142678
- SCSB-12514711
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library