The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle audiobook.

Genre: scifi

On a quiet afternoon in the English village of Great Wymering, a cricket match is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a stranger who moves in jerks, speaks in odd staccato bursts, and seems to hum with hidden machinery. The players laugh at him at first - until his uncanny speed and strength turn the farce into something harder to explain. Local doctor Allingham wants a sensible answer (escaped lunatic, hoax, anything but the impossible), while the more imaginative Captain Gregg suspects the truth: the newcomer is part man, part mechanism, and profoundly out of place in time. Bank clerk Arthur Withers, gentler and more curious than the others, becomes the Clockwork Man's confidant, drawn in as the stranger reveals a device embedded in his skull - a clock that lets him perceive dimensions beyond ordinary reality, and that has malfunctioned, stranding him thousands of years from home. As Allingham and the villagers grapple with whether they can help him, two courtships unfold (Allingham with the sharp-minded Lillian Payne, Arthur with Rose Lomas), and the Clockwork Man's disturbing account of the future forces everyone to confront technology, gender, violence, and the true cost of a perfectly regulated life.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:32:17) Chapter 02

(00:54:27) Chapter 03

(01:25:07) Chapter 04

(01:53:30) Chapter 05

(02:22:40) Chapter 06

(02:58:20) Chapter 07

(03:24:30) Chapter 08

(03:48:22) Chapter 09

(04:21:18) Chapter 10

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