In Liz Duffy Adams’ The Broken Machine, a burnt-out coder has become a hermit in the wilderness, nursing a broken arm and making lists from memory — of lizards, endangered species, Moments of Lost Time — in company with her only friend, a gray fox with a bad attitude. When wild fires approach they flee through the woods to the sea, pursued by would-be rescuers and a punkish psychopomp, in this climate-chaos fantasia.

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