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The Clay Machine-Gun

Victor Pelevin

The Clay Machine-Gun

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When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur's labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chatrooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself. As they fumble their way back to reality through a mesmerising world of abundant information but little knowledge, we are forced to wonder - can technology itself be anything more than a myth?

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Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2009
ISBN-13
9781847676269
Genre
Science FictionFiction
Topics
Technology and realityMythology reimaginedIdentity and perception

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