Machine Machine

Machine

A White Space Novel

    • 3.8 • 46 Ratings
    • £3.99

Publisher Description

Meet Doctor Jens.

She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years.

The first part of her job involves jumping out of perfectly good space-ships. The second part requires developing emergency treatments for sick aliens of species she's never seen before.

She loves it.

But her latest emergency is also proving a mystery:

Two ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a dangerous embrace.
A mysterious crew suffering from an even more mysterious ailment.
A shipmind trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared away.
A murderous virus from out of time.

Unfortunately, Dr. Jens can't resist a mystery. Which is why she's about to discover that everything she's dedicated her life to . . . is a lie.

Praise for Elizabeth Bear

'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has created a fascinating and complete universe
that blends high-tech gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion' Publishers Weekly

'This is certainly the best science fiction novel I've read in 2019 so far and I look forward to see how Bear develops the characters and her impressively rich universe' (POPULAR SCIENCE)

'Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and Ancestral Night, first half of a duology, brims with heady concepts and sleek far-future hardware. There is a mordant wit at work' (FINANCIAL TIMES)

'Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and crackling dialogue' (Daily Mail)

'Bear has constructed a fascinating, absorbing universe populated with compelling and intelligent characters who conform to neither clichés nor stereotypes. It's sci-fi of the top order' (popmatters.com)

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2020
8 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
496
Pages
PUBLISHER
Orion
SIZE
2.5
MB

Customer Reviews

kel0365 ,

Worth It

A good book, if perhaps 50 pages too lng.

agstanway ,

Not bad at sll

Good story

SciFiFan2 ,

Great Read

This is a particularly satisfying read, written in the same world as but not a direct sequel to ancestral night (some character crossover). In addition to being very well written it is a sizeable novel for a reasonable price (unlike some recent publications available on iBooks).

I would strongly recommend both this and the previous white space novel, both great space opera reads.

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