01 Or a Machine Called Skeets
Subtitle: the new Frankenstein chronicles
Publisher: the savant garde workshop
Published: 1989,1991, 2010
Place of publication: sag harbor, new york, usa
Language: eng
Format: Canvas paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781878998101
Description: This is the world's first prototype on-demand desktop-published novel.  Only two copies of ISBN 1-878998102 exist. 330 pp. 8x10 produced on an epson 7-pin dot-matrix with continuous feed, using Wordstar software. The cover was canvas, handwritten by Artemis Smith.  Faint overruns as review copies were also produced and bound as paperbacks:  ISBN 1-878998110 8x10;  ISBN 1-878998129  6x9.  An e-book edition, ISBN 9781878998224 has just been released in Kindle and Pub-it for sale at $9.99
Table of contents: title: Synopsis; title: A thought experiment in epistemological aesthetics and the philosophy of mind in search of Human purpose and identity, in the tradition of Kafka, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.; title: Alana L. Collos; title: Existentialist Philosophy in the form of a Science Fiction thought experiment, another Midnight walk in the Garden of Good and Evil in search of the Self and the Sacred - but with a new twist that leaves the reader trapped in moral paradox, forever altered in their perception of personal Being and Identity. Books I and II fall under the Orwellian and Kafkaesque, but are ominously Contemporary. Book III breaks out of the picture to totally new ground. A verbal film noir.; title: More Reviews and Recommendations; title: Biography; title: Artemis Smith is a pen name for Prof. Annselm L.N.V. Morpurgo, a widely published poet, futurist and philosopher of science. Her many works are archived on the internet at www.ArtemisSmith.com