There are plenty of eerie tales in the new collection. Pinsker, who lives in Maryland, also uses different voices and approaches in her work - not surprisingly, because she’s a singer-songwriter, too. What ties many of the stories together is Pinsker’s exploration of disturbing trends in the world today, such as the rise of AI and surveillance technology, and the ways in which technology in general threatens human connections. It’s the second Pinsker collection Small Beer has released. “Lost Places,” published by Small Beer Press in Easthampton, pulls together 12 stories by Pinsker, including some of her more celebrated and longer stories, such as “Two Truths and a Lie,” with some of her less well-known tales, and one new story. Dick awards, and her writing has been called “wildly original and, frankly, jaw-dropping,” as one critic puts it. Fantasy and science fiction writer Sarah Pinsker has won a number of honors, including Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K.
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