?Edwin Vincent Odle?s ominous, droll, and unforgettable The Clockwork Man is a missing link between Lewis Carroll and John Sladek or Philip K. Dick.? ?Jonathan Lethem, author of The Arrest ?It is a striking and original book, and there is a notable sermon in it for those who can dissociate sermons from long faces.??The Bookman (1923) E. V. Odle (1890?1942) was a Bloomsbury-adjacent magazine editor in London.