Robot Wrangler Roy and The Long Way Home - Audiobook Edition
Audiobook Edition of Robot Wrangler Roy and The Long Way Home by August Mae
Narrated by a Digital Voice
Far out on the Scatter, past where the trade-lanes give out, the barge The Marigold comes upon a thing adrift in the cold void: a small worn machine, wiped nearly to nothing, turning one faithful light toward a bearing it can no longer name. No name, no course, no home. Only one word, and under it one fixed wish: to get home.
Word of a derelict adrift brings the lanes' finalisation assessor up the dark, his verdict reached out of pity: a machine wiped past memory is a lost cause, kindest closed gently before it drifts forever after a bearing it can never make.
But Roy will not call a machine a lost cause before anyone has flown the long way and asked it what it is doing. A broken loop wanders or stops. This one steers.
Warm, wistful, full of heart. A standalone adventure, read in any order.