Machine: A White Space Novel by Elizabeth Bear

 

Wrapped the last couple-hundred pages of this after gaming tonight. It started a little slowly, a little dryly, but it got moving the last third or so--and some of the wit and humor I remembered from *Ancestral Night* appeared. It's been a couple-three years since I read that novel, and I don't remember much of it, but this novel stands more than well enough on its own.