Machine

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Elizabeth Bear

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First Saga Press hardcover edition October 2020

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Jacket design by Jae Song

Jacket photo of stars by Serge Meunier, ESA/Hubble & NASA

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Author photograph © Kyle Cassidy

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bear, Elizabeth, author.

Title: Machine / Elizabeth Bear.

Description: First Saga Press hardcover edition. | London ; New York : Saga Press, 2020. | Series: White space ; book 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2020008876 (print) | LCCN 2020008877 (ebook) | ISBN 9781534403017 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534403024 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781534403031 (ebook)

Subjects: GSAFD: Science Fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3602.E2475 M33 2020 (print) | LCC PS3602.E2475 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008876

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020008877

ISBN 978-1-5344-0301-7

ISBN 978-1-5344-0303-1 (ebook)