Robot Wrangler Roy and The Long Way Home

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.A big-hearted, warm, wistful comfort read for adults who like their futures kind, their crews found, and their machines worth keeping. Perfect for readers of Becky Chambers, Travis Baldree, and TJ Klune. Every book in the series stands completely alone and can be read in any order, with no on-page violence and no one left behind.