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From the author of Remainder and two novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize C and Satin Island a widescreen odyssey through the medical labs computer graphics studios military research centers and other dark zones where the frontiers of potentialto cure kill understand or entertainare constantly tested and refined
Bodies in motion Birds bees and bobsleighs What is the force that moves the sun and other stars Wheres our fucking airplane Whats inside Box 808 and why does everybody want it
Deep within the archives of timeandmotion pioneer Lillian Gilbreth lies a secret Famous for producing solid lighttracks that captured the path of workers movements Gilbreth helped birth the era of mass observation and big data But did she also as her broken correspondence with a young Soviet physicist suggests discover in her final days a perfect movement one that would change everything
An international hunt begins for the one box missing from her records and we follow contemporary motioncapture consultant Mark Phocan as well as his collaborators and shadowy antagonists across geopolitical fault lines and through strata of personal and collective history Meanwhile work is under way on the blockbuster movie Incarnation an epic space tragedy
As McCarthy peers through the screen or veil of technological modernity to reveal the underlying symbolic structures of human experience The Making of Incarnation weaves a set of stories one inside the other rings within rings a perpetual motion machine
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