Published: Jan. 19, 2012
Words: 3,789 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465851031

Short description

January, in a city rotted out by the Depression, like a great grey circus filled with desperate men and half-mad animals. One particular desperate man, in the company of a friend who aspires for more than survival. Faith like a battery, and the incredible engine it runs...

Extended description

January, in a city rotted out by the Depression, like a great grey circus filled with desperate men and half-mad animals. One particular desperate man, in the company of a friend who aspires for more than survival. Faith like a battery, and the engine it runs...

The Fantastical God-Machine is a short story set in Detroit in 1931. It focuses on Ben Stilton, a former factory worker called to work on a very unusual machine. It resides outside of the Agoraphobics collection, but only by an argument of semantics.

Tags

horror, god, depression, elephants, religion, faith, gods, detroit, metaphysics, recession, great depression, inventions, slipstream, mad science, machines, new weird, circuses, warped

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Review by: Annabeth Lake on May 04, 2012 :
This shocking and brutal story smacks the reader right in the face like any good horror story should. Loved it.
(reviewed long after purchase)

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