num_pages: 221
description: The novel is from the perspective of Desiderio, a bureau member in the main city currently under attack by Dr Hoffman’s desire machines. With them, Hoffman expands the dimensions of time-space, allowing mutating mirages to inhabit the same dimension as the living. Desiderio, though indifferent to the apparitions, finds himself visited nightly by a glass woman, the manifestation of Albertina, Hoffman’s daughter &amp; Desiderio’s lover-to-be. Unlike Desiderio, many people go crazy in response to the apparitions. The city, severed from communication with the world, becomes a place of rampant insanity &amp; crime, causing a state of emergency. Under the Minister of Determination's command, Desiderio goes undercover to assassinate Hoffman.
language: English
title: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
titlecomplete: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Magical Realism, Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 3522
publisher: Penguin