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  • Machine

  • A White Space Novel
  • By: Elizabeth Bear
  • Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
  • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)
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By: Elizabeth Bear
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
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Summary

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.

©2020 Elizabeth Bear (P)2020 Orion Publishing Group

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Brilliant

Brilliant, just brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, really brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, actually brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, did I mention? truely brilliant!

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moving and forward thinking

Elizabeth Bear raised many critical issues throughout the narrative of this book. I very much look forward to their future works.

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Interesting and well read.

For fans of Babylon 5 or 2000ad. Sympathetic characters complex story. A good all-round book

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Wonderfully old fashioned

A plot that’s heavy in exposition but you won’t care as it’s so well done.

Like Ancestral Night, this kicks off with a BDO that does not stay mysterious for long before going off at a tangent.

Narration was well done.

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Intelligent and humorous

It’s a pleasure to read a book that is both funny and at the same time doesn’t treat the reader as a lemming that will gladly read whatever social media dictates, i enjoyed the characters immensely and I have to say the narrator was first class, she really brought to life the story for me, my only caveat being that I felt the authors politicising of the latter section of the book left me cringing

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Refreshing Scifi story of a space-EMT

This story works because of decent characters, great world building and a good space-mistery!

What I find very interesting is how the internal monologue of the MC is wildly different from what I would've expected, but I respect it as is.

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totally wrong narrator to continue

last book Inn the series had a great narrator this one doesn't fit at all.

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