Nuevo libro: Machine Of Death.

Algunos sabrán que soy de leer bastantes comics, ultimamente por internet. Hace unos días (bastantes) salió a la venta un libro de historias cortas llamado ‘Machine Of Death’, todas giran en torno a una máquina que predice de forma verdadera, pero ambigüa cómo va a morir la gente.

Tiene muchas cosas buenas, una es que gran parte del mismo está bajo licencia Creative Commons. La otra, quizás la mas importante, es que la mayoría de los ilustradores son personas que vengo siguiendo hace mucho rato. Por nombrar algunos, Dorothy Gambrell, Randall Munroe, David Malki, Chris Hastings, Rene Engström y un platense que no conocía, Rafa Franco. Me hubiera gustado muchísimo que aparecieran Phil y Kaja Foglio, Lar deSouza y Tatsuya Ishida. Tampoco hubiera echado de menos a Antony Clark, Randy Millholland y Jeph Jacques.

Como si fuera poco, esta gente tan pero tan copada también están subiendo el libro de a poquito en formato de podcast. O sea, los autores de cada historia te leen un capítulo por semana para que puedas escucharlo cuando quieras. El ingés (por lo menos hasta ahora) es bastante claro y la ambientación es muy mesurada.

Para eschuchar cada capítuo a medida que los suben (rss incluído):
http://feeds.feedburner.com/machineofpodcast

El libro podés bajarlo gratis!! de acá:
http://machineofdeath.net/a/ebook

THE MACHINE COULD TELL, FROM JUST A SAMPLE
OF YOUR BLOOD, HOW YOU WERE GOING TO DIE

It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a
sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words
DROWNED or CANCER or OLD AGE or CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF
POPCORN. And it was frustratingly vague in its predictions: dark, and
seemingly delighting in the ambiguities of language. OLD AGE, it had
already turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or shot by
a bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machine captured that
old-world sense of irony in death — you can know how it’s going to
happen, but you’ll still be surprised when it does.

We tested it before announcing it to the world, but testing took time — too
much, since we had to wait for people to die. After four years had gone by
and three people died as the machine predicted, we shipped it out the
door.

There were now machines in every doctor’s office and in booths at
the mall. You could pay someone or you could probably get it done for
free, but the result was the same no matter what machine you went to. They
were, at least, consistent.

— from the introduction

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