Edwin Vincent Odle (1890--1942) was founding editor of the British short-story magazine Argosy, and a member of avant-garde author Dorothy Richardson's circle. Odle's only other science fiction novel was never published, and is now lost. Annalee Newitz is editor-in-chief of the science fiction and science blog io9. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013) and Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (2006).

"Edwin Vincent Odle's ominous, droll, and unforgettable THE CLOCKWORK MAN is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick. Considered with them, it suggests an alternate lineage for SF, springing as much from G.K. Chesterton's sensibility as from H.G. Wells's." -- Jonathan Lethem (2013) "This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the rejection of the 'rational' future and the conservation of the humanity of man. Of the many works of scientific romance that have fallen into utter obscurity, this is perhaps the one which most deserves rescue." -- Brian Stableford "Perhaps the outstanding scientific romance of the 1920s." -- Anatomy of Wonder

• Chapter 1: The Coming of the Clockwork Man Chapter 2: The Wonderful Cricketer Chapter 3: The Mystery of the Clockwork Man Chapter 4: Arthur Withers Thinks Things Out Chapter 5: The Clockwork Man Investigates Matter Chapter 6: "It was not so, it is not so, and, indeed,God forbid it should be so." Chapter 7: The Clockwork Man Explains Himself Chapter 8: The Clock Chapter 9: Gregg Chapter 10: Last Appearance of the Clockwork Man

Edwin Vincent Odle (1890--1942) was founding editor of the British short-story magazine Argosy, and a member of avant-garde author Dorothy Richardson's circle. Odle's only other science fiction novel was never published, and is now lost. Annalee Newitz is editor-in-chief of the science fiction and science blog io9. She's the author of Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (2013) and Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (2006).

"Edwin Vincent Odle's ominous, droll, and unforgettable THE CLOCKWORK MAN is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick. Considered with them, it suggests an alternate lineage for SF, springing as much from G.K. Chesterton's sensibility as from H.G. Wells's." -- Jonathan Lethem (2013) "This is still one of the most eloquent pleas for the rejection of the 'rational' future and the conservation of the humanity of man. Of the many works of scientific romance that have fallen into utter obscurity, this is perhaps the one which most deserves rescue." -- Brian Stableford "Perhaps the outstanding scientific romance of the 1920s." -- Anatomy of Wonder

• Chapter 1: The Coming of the Clockwork Man Chapter 2: The Wonderful Cricketer Chapter 3: The Mystery of the Clockwork Man Chapter 4: Arthur Withers Thinks Things Out Chapter 5: The Clockwork Man Investigates Matter Chapter 6: "It was not so, it is not so, and, indeed,God forbid it should be so." Chapter 7: The Clockwork Man Explains Himself Chapter 8: The Clock Chapter 9: Gregg Chapter 10: Last Appearance of the Clockwork Man