The Clockwork Man

So after a week or so to ponder this book I think I have figured out why I didn't like it. Ostensibly this book is about a 'Clockwork Man' who stumbles back through time from the far future and ends up in the middle of a 1920's English village; his appearance is then followed by the requisite shenani......more

Wow. Wallaballo. Wum--wum... This book has left me speechless. Let's just say that this is the reason I read Radium-Age science fiction, folks. The book is too short to go into too much detail, and to expound further on it's attributes is to spoil it. So I am going to do something a little different......more

A strange early science fiction novel from 1923, the first to feature a cyborg, or mechanically enhanced man. The clockwork man of the title makes his first appearance at a cricket match. His mechanism is malfunctioning and he has hurtled back in time. Obviously this is a fascinating theme for a nov......more

Just recently, I had some words to say about an English dystopian novel from 1920, "The People of the Ruins" by Edward Shanks. This book had been brought back into print in 2012 by HiLo Books as part of its wonderful Radium Age Science Fiction Series, the goal of which was to unearth neglected works......more

This is the twelfth novel I got to, in my quest to read Radium Age SF throughout the back half of 2021, with an honorary pick being Kallocain, a somewhat Orwellian Swedish novel from 1940. The Clockwork Man is my favourite of the bunch, so far. A Clockwork man from eight thousand years in the future......more