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8 10 y separately published work icon Machine Man Max Barry , Melbourne : Scribe , 2011 Z1580713 2011 single work novel humour science fiction

'Charlie always thought his body could be better. His employer, military contractor Better Future, has the resources he needs to explore a few ideas. So he begins to build parts. Better parts. Charlie's prosthetist, Lola, is impressed by his artificial limbs. But some see him as a madman. Others, a product. Or even a weapon.

'Existing at the intersection between mind and body, in the dawn of the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny tale about one man's quest for the ultimate in self-improvement.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 The Kaleidoscope of the Re-Presentations of Yeh-Hsien (the Chinese 'Cinderella' Story) Bin Hu , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , August vol. 7 no. 2 1997; (p. 5-15) Bin Lu characterises the 'differences and similarities in re-presentations of the story pattern, culture and ideology' of the Chinese folktale, Yeh-Hsien, by examining two English-language picture book versions, Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story by Ai-Ling Louie and Wishbones: A Folk Tale from China by Barbara Ker Wilson. Hu highlights the impact of the 1888 Perrault version which is evident in the character constructions in both texts and after close critical attention, Hu concludes that, '...the retellers have shaped their re-presentations of the story of Yeh-Hsien in such a way that it becomes more compatible with the values, customs and traditions of the culture into which the story is introduced' (14).
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