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The Truth Machine
2012
single work
radio play
— Appears in: Restore Point : Scripts for Radio and Film 2012;'Kicked to death on a sidewalk by thugs, aged Nobel laureate Bruce is frozen for centuries in cryonic biostasis. When his chilled flesh is rebuilt and rejuvenated, he wakes in a placid future ruled by a world-commanding computer system, the Truth Machine. But is this utopia or oppressive horror-heaven or hell?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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'Resurrection' is a revised version of the original story, with (according to Brian Stableford's Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia) an inverted ending (p.34).
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Awards
- 1985 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Short Story
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