The teeth of a slow machine /Andrew Roff.
Roff, Andrew,
The teeth of a slow machine /Andrew Roff. - Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (214 pages)
Edited by Jo Case. Some of these stories have appeared in other publications.
Includes bibliographies and index.
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own. A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband's cold developing complications and killing him, in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of events that works like a puzzle. A man spends his inheritance on technology that will allow him to fly. And an archeologist working for mining companies against the interests of Indigenous communities develops a mysterious psychological condition that causes her to black out and commit extreme acts of generosity --
9781743058916 9781743059265 9781743059272
Australian fiction--21st century.
Short stories.
Human beings--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Australian.
Electronic Books.
PR9369 / .T448 2022
The teeth of a slow machine /Andrew Roff. - Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, (c)2022. - 1 online resource (214 pages)
Edited by Jo Case. Some of these stories have appeared in other publications.
Includes bibliographies and index.
This daring, irreverent short-story collection dissects and explores the conundrums of contemporary life and what it is to be human, through a world very like our own. A corporate satire follows a pair of dark operatives working for a chicken franchise as they take careful revenge on counterfeiters. A coder calculates the odds of her husband's cold developing complications and killing him, in a story told in code. A relationship at breaking point is told via a scrambled timeline of events that works like a puzzle. A man spends his inheritance on technology that will allow him to fly. And an archeologist working for mining companies against the interests of Indigenous communities develops a mysterious psychological condition that causes her to black out and commit extreme acts of generosity --
9781743058916 9781743059265 9781743059272
Australian fiction--21st century.
Short stories.
Human beings--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Australian.
Electronic Books.
PR9369 / .T448 2022