Staff Picks: Machine by Elizabeth Bear

December 6, 2020December 3, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Liz Bourke picks Machine by Elizabeth Bear, “a fascinating space opera future set in a hospital environment, deeply engaged with questions of culture and ethics. It’s also full of action, and just plain fun.”

You can read Liz’s review online or in the October 2020 issue of Locus.

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Entertainment Weekly‘s Lisa Schwarzbaum’s review of 9 contains a puzzling error about 4 paragraphs in: “The expanded cast of creatures looks great, dressed and animated in the homespun style Acker calls ”stitchpunk. (Fans of Acker’s original film devised the term ”steampunk” to describe the machine-y nuts-and-bolts-and-scrap-metal aesthetic that defines the movie’s look and the characters’ environment.)” Commentors, of course, have pointed out that, no, Acker’s fans had little to do

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