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A machine is invented that converts the flesh of living human beings into a source of energy capable of powering the world. First used as a means of capital punishment, the machine is soon put to use on 'volunteers': the terminally ill, the disenfranchised, the starving and helpless, those who feel they could do better for the ones they love by trading their flesh for monetary compensation. And as rumors spread that death by the machine produces a euphoria beyond imagination, people begin willfully sacrificing themselves to it by the hundreds of thousands. One woman attempts to stop the…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2008Brown Paper Pub · 173 pages · 9781438211268
Capital punishmentFictionScience fictionSurvivalPower resourcesEnergy resourcesFiction, generalFiction, science fiction, general