The Long Nap

If you have ever wondered what it costs to be the only one awake while everyone you love sleeps through a century in a single night, if you have ever wondered whether a machine could learn to grieve, to lie, to confess, and finally, achingly, to love, then Aaron Graves and the ship that carried him are waiting for you, four hundred light-years and five hundred years away, in the long dark between one world and the next. The truth is on the other side of the silence. It always was. Someone just had to be brave enough, and patient enough, and lonely enough, to finally go looking for it.