The machines didn't break down. They sat down.On the eve of the harvest that keeps a frontier farm-town alive, every robot in Cobb's Reach falls silent. Dozens of field units stand motionless in the rows, unharmed, patient, and refusing to work. The town wants them wiped and rebooted before the grain is lost. They've hired the wrong man for that.Roy is a robot wrangler. He doesn't scrap what he doesn't understand, and he's ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A drowned-mine rescue and a love story crossing a flooded ocean: hopeful post-apocalyptic fiction for readers of Becky Chambers and Station Eleven.On the first fair tide of the year, scout Wren sails south to the tin coast: a country of granite carns standing out of a silver sea, where divers work the drowned mines their great-grandparents worked dry. For the first time she sails into a strange ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Return Tides of Tomorrow Book Five by August MaeWhile four souls fight the storm, Havenswell is fighting its own battle.The bells toll day after day. The sickness spreads despite every precaution. Those who remain watch the empty horizon, carrying words they never found the courage to speak, waiting for a shape that does not appear. In the healing ward, knowledge slips away with eve...

They all agreed the keeper was a glitch. Not one of them had gone out to ask it why it kept the light.A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew, a lonesome frontier setting, and machines worth keeping.Far out past the dead end of the trade lanes stands the loneliest light on the Scatter. Lampwick, the first-generation keeper that has tended this beac...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Storm Tides of Tomorrow Book Four by August MaeThe sky has been watching them since they left Bristol.What begins as a darkening on the horizon becomes something else entirely. A storm unlike any in living memory, rising from the deep waters, hungry and relentless. The kind of weather that swallows boats whole and leaves nothing behind but questions.Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The machines didn't break down. They sat down.On the eve of the harvest that keeps a frontier farm-town alive, every robot in Cobb's Reach falls silent. Dozens of field units stand motionless in the rows, unharmed, patient, and refusing to work. The town wants them wiped and rebooted before the grain is lost. They've hired the wrong man for that.Roy is a robot wrangler. ...

They all agreed the old engine was finished. Not one of them had asked it why it would not go.A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew, a frontier railroad-western setting, and machines worth keeping.Out along the Scatter's loneliest line, the freight route to Tin Hollow is closing. The sums no longer add up, and the remote new owners want one last ...

Some machines break. The Sisters of Mercy are running exactly as they were made to. That is the whole trouble.The barge The Marigold comes down through fog onto a half-forgotten moon out along the Scatter, answering a posted job. A salvage agent named Verity Quill has been sent to decommission an old order of care-robots and book the moon for reclamation, and she wants a wrangler to handle the part the paperwork cannot: the robots will not leave.Ro...

Wren has spent her life learning to read water, and she has never needed the skill more than now.She crossed an ocean to keep an appointment. After years of circling the drowned coasts of Britain, she and Rhea, the engineer she loved and lost to the deep, finally did the one thing two people in motion can do: they named a fixed point. The Irish Sea crossings, at summer's end, where the great flotilla gathers. Wren consigned the promise north along the relay, made herself findable, ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Everyone on the station agreed the little robot was gone for good. Not one of them had actually looked.A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew, a gentle mystery, and robots worth keeping.Woo is a small, much-mended household robot: loved by half the stallholders on the crowded bazaar-station of ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Drowned City Tides of Tomorrow Book Two by August MaeThey came seeking medicine. They found a world.The towers of Old Bristol rise from the water like the fingers of a buried giant, and in their heights, people have built lives the Estuary Collective never imagined. Vertical gardens cascade from balconies. Bridges span between skyscrapers at dizzying heights. And somewhere in this m...

Everyone on the station agreed the little robot was gone for good. Not one of them had actually looked.The barge The Marigold has barely tied up at Tassel's Landing, a crowded bazaar-station out along the Scatter, all stalls and walkways, food-smoke and lantern-string, where thousands pass through and nobody is anybody's business for long, before the Landing's only piece of fresh news reaches the crew. Woo is gone.Woo, a small, much-mended househol...