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The books of May are here—fresh, fierce, and full of feels.

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Wedding season includes searching for a missing bride�and a killer . . .


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Sometimes the path forward begins with a step back.


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One island. Three generations. A summer that changes everything.


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A snapshot made them legends. What it didn�t show could tear them apart.


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This life coach will give you a lift!


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A twisty, "addictive," mystery about jealousy and bad intentions


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Trapped by magic, haunted by muses�she must master the cards before they�re lost to darkness.


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Masquerades, secrets, and a forbidden romance stitched into every seam.


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A vanished manuscript. A murdered expert. A castle full of secrets�and one sharp-witted sleuth.


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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Machine by Elizabeth Bear

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Also by Elizabeth Bear:

The Folded Sky, June 2025
Trade Paperback
The Origin of Storms, May 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
The Origin of Storms, June 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Machine, July 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Machine, October 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
The Red-Stained Wings, April 2020
Trade Size / e-Book / audiobook (reprint)
The Stone in the Skull, May 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Ancestral Night, March 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
New York Fantastic, December 2017
Trade Size / e-Book
Karen Memory, February 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Range Of Ghosts, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
All the Windwracked Stars, November 2008
Hardcover
Hell and Earth, August 2008
Trade Size
Ink and Steel; The Stratford Man Vol. 1, July 2008
Trade Size
A Companion to Wolves, October 2007
Hardcover
Carnival, December 2006
Paperback
Worldwired, November 2005
Paperback

Machine
Elizabeth Bear

White Space #2
Gallery / Saga Press
July 2021
On Sale: July 6, 2021
496 pages
ISBN: 1534403027
EAN: 9781534403024
Kindle: B082GQCV5R
Trade Size / e-Book
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Science Fiction

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)

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