Machine man
By: Max Barry
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780307476890
Subjects: Mechanical engineers; Artificial limbs; Fiction
Description: "Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement."--Publisher's description