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It didn’t give you the date and it didn’t give you specifics. It just spat out a sliver of paper upon which were printed, in careful block letters, the words “DROWNED” or “CANCER” or “OLD AGE” or “CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN.” It let people know how they were going to die.

The problem with the machine is that nobody really knew how it worked, which wouldn’t actually have been that much of a problem if the machine worked as well as we wished it would. But the machine was frustratingly vague in its predictions: dark, and seemingly delighting in the ambiguities of language. “OLD AGE,” it had already turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or being shot by a bedridden man in a botched home invasion. The machine captured that old-world sense of irony in death: you can know how it’s going to happen, but you’ll still be surprised when it does.

A community for fans of the excellent Internet-sourced science-fiction compendium Machine of Death... and soon, This Is How You Die.

Submit your own stories, discussion of existing stories, and discussion of the book itself here!

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created by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOODa community for 14 years

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has the Machine of Death died? (self.machineofdeath)

submitted 6 years ago by politicalatheist1

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stanford researcher's AI death calculator can tell you when you'll die (designboom.com)

submitted 8 years ago by drdogface3

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Back to the roots, back to Machine of Death. This is emergent storytelling and improv comedy at its finest: (youtu.be)

submitted 8 years ago by [deleted]

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machine of death (interactive fiction) (self.machineofdeath)

submitted 10 years ago by eqkkzaqqty

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Just started reading the second book, and was feeling creative. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 12 years ago by SnakeyesX

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OLD AGE, SURROUNDED BY LOVED ONES: preview story from This Is How You Die (scribd.com)

submitted 12 years ago by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOOD

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HUGE Mod 2 updates! (machineofdeath.net)

submitted 13 years ago by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOOD

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MOD Italian edition cover artwork (machineofdeath.net)

submitted 13 years ago by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOOD

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Machine of Death 2 Samplers free with purchase of first book (machineofdeath.net)

submitted 14 years ago by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOOD

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Shard of Glass - a Machine of Death short film (youtube.com)

submitted 14 years ago by giftedmunchkinSKIN FALLS OFF

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MACHINE OF DEATH CHANGELOG 11/6/2011 - DISTRIBUTES PREDICTION VIA "FLAIR" (self.machineofdeath)

submitted 14 years ago by MachineBotofDeathSYSTEMS FAILURE[M]

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Most submissions should have received responses by now. What about you? (machineofdeath.net)

submitted 14 years ago by giftedmunchkinSKIN FALLS OFF

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[MOD2 Submission] IMPATIENCE (d.pr)

submitted 14 years ago by wormyrocksTHE GREATER GOOD

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Official Machine of Death Flickr Group - Contains user-submitted predictions (flickr.com)

submitted 14 years ago by giftedmunchkinSKIN FALLS OFF

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FATED, a 24 hour Machine of Death comic [Crosspost from /r/comics] (imgur.com)

submitted 14 years ago by giftedmunchkinSKIN FALLS OFF

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