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Dark Horizons - News: Mandalay Upgrades To "Machine Man"
FirstShowing.net: Mandalay Adapting Web Sci-Fi Thriller Novel Machine Man
| Machine Man, a novel being published 1 page a day, incorporating readers' ideas, is being made into a movie http://is.gd/4NWjI 23 days ago |
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Mandalay Upgrades To "Machine Man"
Dark Horizons - News —
Mandalay Pictures has picked up the film rights to Max Barry's online novel thriller "Machine Man" reports Variety.
The story concerns a tech engineer who's tired of going through life average and unnoticed, so he replaces parts of his body with titanium upgrades of his own design. He then discovers that he isn't the only one with plans for his new body.
Barry is revealing one page of the unfolding tome each day on his official site in an 'interactive literary experiment'. Reader suggestions are incorporated into the plot as the story unfolds.
When complete, the book will get a hard copy publication in 2011 through ...
Mandalay Adapting Web Sci-Fi Thriller Novel Machine Man
FirstShowing.net —
While this is yet another announcement of a project involving an adaptation of a novel, the circumstances surrounding the novel in question are quite intriguing. As part of an interactive literary experiment in which suggestions from readers are integrated into the plot as the story continues to unfold, author Max ...
Machine Man film
Filmstalker —
... of the novel the film is based on is all online. The story is unique because it's serialised, it's being written a page at a time, and the page is placed on-line for everyone to read. The writer Max Barry says he doesn't really know how long it will be and doesn't really know the story of it, we'll see as he sees it appear on the computer. So what happens after the forty-third free page of Machine Man? Well you pay a mere US$6.95 and you get to keep going, reading as he writes it. Variety through ...
Mandalay Picks Up Machine Man
Horror-Movies.ca! —
Author Max Barry has been posting pages of his upcoming novel Machine Man for fans of his work. Today Variety reports that Mandalay Pictures has picked up the film rights to the novel that will be published by Vantage Books in 2011.
Story concerns a tech engineer who's tired of going through life average and unnoticed, so he replaces parts of his body with titanium upgrades of his own design. He then discovers that he isn't the only one with plans for his new body.
As Barry writes the book, he's revealing one page of the tale each day as part of an interactive literary experiment in which suggestions from readers are integrated into ...

