Jul 12 2025
METAtropolis brings together five stories set in a nearish-future United States that’s mostly come undone amid climate catastrophes and other less-specified degradations. The anthology began as an audio-only collection. John Scalzi put it together, and worked with the other authors — Jay Lake, Tobias S. Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, and Karl Schroeder — to create a shared …
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Oct 06 2020
Genuinely surprised after reading this to learn that Elizabeth Bear has no military/police background. Or, perhaps, like myself, she spent formative years around military, which would definitely explain the wholly authentic feel she brings to the ex-military protagonist and judiciary command structure of the universe she creates here in Machine which, while the second in …
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Oct 21 2015
There isn’t a zeppelin on the cover to let readers know this is an alternate history, but by way of making up for it, Elizabeth Bear sets the book’s first story on board hydrogen-filled German airship. The Hans Glücker is on its way from Calais to the jewel of British North America, the eponymous New …
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