Comments on: My Short Story For The Machine Of Death Collection

By: My Short Story For The Second Machine Of Death Collection - a post on Tom Francis' blog

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By: Jonn

Jonn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:49:34 +0000

I just thought of something; what if some guy fell asleep on his friend's couch or something, and his friend runs him through the machine, as a joke. When he wakes up, his friend half-jokes about telling him, whereupon our protagonist kills him to keep from knowing. As someone walks in on the grisly scene, he accidentally looks at the scrap of paper on which his fate is written; "ELECTROCUTION".

By: oscar

oscar — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:51:56 +0000

nice, should be in bed by now (exams tommorow) but i always have to read your stuff.

By: Georgietowne Manburger

Georgietowne Manburger — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:44:57 +0000

That was marvelous!

By: Craig Laycock

Craig Laycock — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:04:12 +0000

I really enjoyed that! Re: illustration I’m guessing a man looking pretty pissed off at a slip of paper would serve. Perhaps a speech bubble saying, “How do you even die from a sponge?”

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:29:06 +0000

Thanks. The book it’s going into is now going to be illustrated, the editors have roped 25 different comic book dudes to do some art for each of the stories. I can’t even imagine what you’d do for mine.

By: Itrade

Itrade — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:27:09 +0000

Cool story, I read it a while ago and re-read the ending just recently. What does the paper say if the person is going to die in their sleep of old age?

By: Waste_Manager

Waste_Manager — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:55:42 +0000

Very good, but I think the pace slows towards the end of the chapter a little too much. I have the full article pegged to read at home, and I’m looking forward to it.

By: Kazill

Kazill — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:45:34 +0000

Wow, that was really good,

By: DiscountNinja

DiscountNinja — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:49:47 +0000

Mr Francis – you are my hero :D

Actually, just want to thank you for your work at PCG all these years too. I was delighted to find you had a blog :D

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:18:28 +0000

God damn Google Docs. Try now? http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddrnmqm7_76fgp6qj

The URL hasn’t changed, and didn’t work for me when I clicked it in the post. But clicking it from Google Docs works for me, and now so does the direct link. Can’t work out if it’s fixed itself or it’s lying to me.

By: DiscountNinja

DiscountNinja — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:37:24 +0000

Noooooooo! Broken link :( I really wanted to read the rest of that :(

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:48:01 +0000

They were outlawed in 2048.

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:20:22 +0000

Hmm, why didn’t she get an abortion?

By: Me

Me — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:58:00 +0000

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:40:48 +0000

I liked it.

By: Grill

Grill — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:03:31 +0000

Primer with bombs! Awesome. 9/10 (only 9/10 because I like longer paragraphs with more pretentious words and cos I’ve got used to giving everything 9/10 these days.)

Oh. Y’all already said that.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:53:09 +0000

Most of the skin on my nose, but no teeth thankfully. And no totalled car, sadly – if I’d stayed on course I would have mildly dented it, but my heroic kerb-dive left it unscathed.

Yeah, definitely Primer-inspired. One of the things I loved about that was the very authentic idea that major discoveries are almost all accidents, usually ones that occur when trying something far less ambitious. Shame my invention couldn’t be as convincing as theirs, but that was out of my hands.

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:54:15 +0000

Er, so – you had to launch yourself out of the path of a Death Race-style driver, causing him to total his car? And you lost a single tooth when you hit the pavement?

By: Zeno Cosini

Zeno Cosini — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:46:44 +0000

It’s GREAT. Did I detect the influence of Primer? The Schrodinger-server is brilliant.

By: Thomas Lawrence

Thomas Lawrence — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:20:00 +0000

I read it. I liked it. Um… yes.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:28:15 +0000

A-Anyone?