Last January, I wrote briefly about 18 books from 1923 that had entered the public domain. One of these, “The Clockwork Man,” by E.V. Odle, particularly caught my attention, in part because it was ...

In 1923, the young British author E.V. Odle published what was to become his greatest work: The Clockwork Man, an extremely odd tale that introduced readers to the idea of a cyborg — half-human, ...

Gideon Smith, a newly minted Hero of the Empire (following the events of Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl), heads off to Britain-controlled America to recover a lost dragon and its ...

Above you see a real beetle, lovingly implanted with clockwork watch parts. Mike Libby, of Insect Lab (no relation), got the idea in a typically serendipitous style: One day I found a dead intact ...

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