Taming of the Truth Machine single work   short story   science fiction  
Alternative title: Resurrection
Issue Details: First known date: 1967... 1967 Taming of the Truth Machine
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Adaptations

form The Truth Machine Damien Broderick , 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.

Notes

  • '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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Alternative title: Resurrection
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