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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 never met a machine he'd throw away. To Roy, this silence is no malfunction; it's a choice. These machines are waiting for something, and the only way to bring in the harvest is to find out what.With the clock running and a frightened town edging toward the brutal, easy fix, Roy and the rag-tag found family aboard his ship The Marigold (a melancholy robot, a hungry, big-hearted alien, a fizzing young engineer, and the galley keeper who feeds them all) have to solve it the gentle way: by listening. No force. No one harmed. No one thrown away.A warm, dry-witted, quietly moving cozy science-fiction novella for adults, in the vein of Becky Chambers (A Psalm for the Wild-Built), Travis Baldree (Legends & Lattes), and T.J. Klune (The House in the Cerulean Sea). Low on peril, high on heart, with zero on-page violence.Every Robot Wrangler Roy story is a complete, standalone adventure you can read in any order. Start here, or start anywhere. Settle in. You'll be looked after in here.Perfect for readers who love: found-family crews - hopeful, gentle science fiction - comfort reads - stories about kindness, belonging, and worth - a beloved ship and a warm galley table. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 scheduled run and then the breakers. But Old Number Nine, the first-generation engine-mind that has run this road faithfully for longer than anyone alive, will not make the run, and will not let itself be towed. A balky old asset, the closure decides. A fault to be forced and cleared on the clock.Robot wrangler Roy and the crew of the barge The Marigold will not have it. Where others reboot, wipe, or scrap, Roy listens, and won't, he knows, is not the same word as can't. A machine that can't is one you mend. A machine that won't, with nothing broken behind it, is one you ask.So Roy sets down the forcing rig and does the harder thing. He climbs up into the cold cab and reads the old engine the way he reads any holdout that has dug in, and what he begins to find is not a fault but an answer. The crew's good hearts make it worse first, when a headlong attempt to simply get the engine going hardens its refusal and brings the closure's clock down faster, and Roy must slow everyone right down, because obsolete and finished are not the same word.If you love the gentle, hopeful futures of Becky Chambers, the cozy found-family warmth of Travis Baldree, or the tender humour of T.J. Klune, pull up a chair by the warm. This is comfort reading for adults: cozy sci-fi with a last-train heart, low on peril, high on heart, with no on-page violence and no one thrown away.Every Robot Wrangler Roy book is a complete standalone wrangle. Read them in any order. Put the kettle on. You will be looked after in here. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Sickness Tides of Tomorrow Book One by August MaeFifty years after the seas rose, the Estuary Collective has built a life worth living. Floating platforms connected by rope bridges. Vertical gardens and kelp forests. A community sustained by the tides and by each other.Then the coughing starts.The illness spreads faster than fear. The healers' herbs cannot touch it. And when the death toll rises, the Collective faces an impossible choice: wait and hope, or send a foraging party into the unknown.Their destination: Old Bristol. A drowned city where only the tallest towers break the surface. Rumour says people survived there, people who might have kept the old medical knowledge alive.Four volunteers step forward. An engineer who has never left home. An apprentice healer carrying everyone's hopes. An old sailor returning to the city he fled fifty years ago. And a scout with secrets of her own.Two days across waters no one has charted. A city no one has seen. Strangers who may help them or turn them away.The Collective is dying.The cure lies beyond the horizon.The Sickness is the first novella in Tides of Tomorrow, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 Wren have found what Havenswell needs. Now they must bring it home.But the sea demands its due. Every wave tests the limits of their vessel. Every hour reveals new fractures, in the boat, in the body, in the bonds that hold them together. When Gull's heart begins to fail, the crew must make impossible choices with no time to weigh the costs.And back in Havenswell, the bells toll for the dying. The sickness spreads. Those who remain watch an empty horizon, carrying words they never found the courage to speak, waiting for a shape that does not appear.Some storms destroy what they touch.Others strip away everything but the truth.The Storm continues the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 every laboured breath.And then, through the grey morning light, something. A shape. Wrong somehow, listing, battered, but unmistakably a sail.The sea gives back what it chooses.But salvation is not simply the arrival of medicine. It is the synthesis of hope from raw ingredients. It is the conversations finally spoken after years of silence. It is the discovery that survival means nothing without connection, that the future must be built with hands reaching toward each other across the water.Some journeys end where they began.Others reveal that home was never a place at all.The Return concludes the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 household robot, loved by a dozen stallholders and minded by none, has simply vanished. And the whole station has already grieved, shrugged, and moved on, because everyone knows what happens to a worn-out little unit that goes missing. Stolen for parts. Scrapped. Sold downwell. A sad, ordinary write-off. No point looking.Roy is asked to confirm the loss. He cannot do it.Because Roy is a robot wrangler, and where others reboot, wipe, or scrap, Roy listens. Every machine has a reason; he finds the reason. And a foregone conclusion, he knows within the hour, is not the same as the truth. A thing the whole Landing agrees on is simply a thing nobody has troubled to check. A small old robot who is genuinely loved does not vanish into thin air without leaving something behind, if only somebody will slow down enough to read it.So Roy declines the easy, sad verdict and does the harder thing. You cannot listen to a robot who has gone, but you can read what it left behind, and Woo left a great deal. A shutter-hinge quietly mended one teatime, no thanks asked. A stray cat fed behind the noodle stall until it grew plump and stopped expecting to be chased. A stall minded for a friend whose child took poorly. A water-butt filled of an evening. A worry eased. The crowd remembers Woo only fondly and vaguely, as a kindness in the shape of a small robot, but Roy begins to read the kindnesses not as a sad inventory of a helper now lost, but as a trail.The crew's good hearts make things worse before they make them better. Pip, certain she can crack it fast, chases the disappearance as a theft, hunting a culprit through the stalls, and a brisk crew sweep lands on frightened, half-remembering witnesses like an accusation. The very people whose small glimpses of Woo are the only thread holding the trail together go quiet and wary, and the thread very nearly snaps. Roy has to undo the harm the slow way, with empty hands and the wrong pace on purpose, while Hessa sets a kettle steaming on a busy corner and mends a frightened row the only way she knows.And through all of it there is Bart, the crew's melancholy robot, who announces flatly and often that Woo is surely gone for good, and then goes down on his careful knees to look under one more crate, and one more after that. A missing friend is the one trouble Bart's gloom cannot make safe. He of all of them reads a vanished machine from the inside, and what he understands about why a small robot might go is the thing he is most carefully not saying, because saying it would feel a very great deal like hope.Warm, funny, quietly wise, and threaded with the gentle pull of a kind mystery, this is a comfort read for grown-ups about the people, of every make, that a busy, careless world is too quick to write off. There is no villain here and no crime to punish, only a foregone conclusion to overturn and a small, much-loved robot to bring home. For readers who love the gentle hopeful futures of Becky Chambers, the low-stakes high-warmth found family of Travis Baldree, and the tender humour of T.J. Klune.Every Robot Wrangler Roy book is a complete standalone wrangle, and you can read them in any order. Put the kettle on. You will be looked after in here. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Underloft Tides of Tomorrow Book Three by August MaeBeneath the drowned towers of Bristol, in pressurised chambers where every breath is borrowed from the sea, a different kind of survival has taken root.The Underloft speaks through action, not words. They judge by craft, not promises. And they remember everyone who comes to their threshold.Seren, Moss, Gull, and Wren have crossed unknown waters and navigated the politics of the Rooftops. But the medicine Havenswell needs lies deeper still, in flooded pharmacies and collapsed hospitals, in places where the old world sleeps beneath fifty years of silence.To earn passage into the drowned places, they must prove their worth. To find what they seek, they must face dangers that have claimed divers before.And to make it home in time, they must outrun something building on the horizon, something none of them can control.The pressure finds every crack. Every weakness. Every secret. Some truths cannot stay hidden in the deep.The Underloft continues the Tides of Tomorrow series, a hopeful climate fiction series for readers who love Becky Chambers, Station Eleven, and City of Ember. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.