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The Clockwork Man
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Edwin Vincent Odle (1890-1942) was an editor and author who from 1926-c.1935 was the first editor of the British short story magazine, Argosy. His brother, the artist and illustrator Alan Odle, was married to avant-garde author Dorothy Richardson. Odle's scientific romance, The Clockwork Man, was first published in 1923 and shows the influence of J D Beresford, an author central to that form who may have helped with its publication, and also of H G Wells. It is the tale of a cyborg - a man into whose body a monitor/time machine has been inserted - who accidentally travels back in time from the far future to the present day, landing in the midst of a cricket match, and, as the 'mysterious stranger, ' describes a world regulated by machines
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