A collection of short stories that all answer the same premise: there exists a machine that can prick your finger, get a drop of blood, and predict how you're going to die (and that tells you). Obviously, said machine is often completely cryptic and there's a fair amount of self-fulfilling prophecies. It's a short stories collection, so there's good and less good, but generally speaking it's quite nice. I'll probably read [b:This Is How You Die|16131226|This is How You Die Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of Death (Machine of Death #2)|Ryan North|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1373996606s/16131226.jpg|21956771] at some point.