{"_id":"6292c393fa5c01e51eff5e77","title":"Mechanical Justice","publish_year":1916,"author":"Aleksandr I. Kuprin","code":"mechanical-justice","words":3518,"image":"clockwork.jpg","image_alt":"Many interconnected gears. Graphite filter.","genres":["quirky","sci-fi","gothic"],"blurb":"A fine-looking attendant came forward and took off the canvas cover from the strange object standing at the footlights. To the eyes of those present, the bright gleaming machine was rather like an automatic weighing-machine, though it was obviously more complex and was much larger.","description":"A university professor demonstrates his new invention to solve all resentment to corporal discipline, an automated flogging machine!","rating":4,"original_language":"Russian","translators":["Rosa Savary Graham","Stephen Graham"],"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}