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This is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable,… por Ryan North

The Machine of Death tells you how you die, but it isn't always as straight forward as the results from the machine might make it seem. This makes all of the stories a bit more fun, as while you are reading them, you try and figure out exactly what the Old Age-prediction meant - are you going to die from old age, or is an old person going to run you over while crossing the street.

Except for one story - where the prediction is exactly how the creature is going to end up... guess you'll just have to read the book to find out which one!… (más)

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BluezReader | 7 reseñas más. | Nov 12, 2023 |

This Is How You Die por Matthew Bennardo

I can't even tell you how great these stories were. Seriously, a choose your own adventure Machine of Death Story? A brochure for how to talk to your 6 year old about their CODT (cause of death testing) experience from the Department of Homeland Security - genius.

There were also stories that were so sad and painful but still amazing and beautiful.

You know, the older I get, the more I love the short story format and these were all very good short examples of the genre.

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beentsy | 7 reseñas más. | Aug 12, 2023 |

This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable,… por Matthew Bennardo

This is the second anthology of stories (and some cartoons) featuring the Machine of Death. (The first, imaginatively enough, was called Machine of Death.) What is the Machine of Death? It's a mysterious device that, when provided with a blood sample, will tell you how you die. It's short on details, and its answers are sometimes ambiguous, cryptic, or downright misleading, but they're never, ever wrong. No matter what you do.

A lot of the stories in this one expand the original idea in new directions. Some put versions of the death machine into different historical periods, the far future, or alternate fantasy worlds. Others toy a bit with the question of how the machine works in the first place. There are several that deal with the idea of fake machines and quite a few that take the idea that a person's death prediction never changes and enjoy trying to find a loophole in it, while others continue to explore the questions of how individuals and societies respond to such a thing.

And my feeling about this volume is much the same as with the first one. Individually, most of these stories aren't necessarily incredibly well-written or interesting (although there some very good exceptions). But a whole kaleidoscope of different explorations and interpretations of this idea is truly compelling, more than enough so to keep me engaged through two fairly thick books.… (más)

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bragan | 7 reseñas más. | Feb 27, 2022 |

This Is How You Die: Stories of the Inscrutable,… por Ryan North

What is life like when you know how you will die?

I enjoyed the first Machine of Death book, and I liked this one even more. These authors found a wide variety of ways to play with the basic concept, and set the stories stories in almost-as-diverse locations. Some of the stories are based on non-human characters, adding another layer of creativity to the endeavor.

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jsabrina | 7 reseñas más. | Jul 13, 2021 |

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