This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
You will expect a marching automaton. You will find a child’s tin soldier no longer than a thumb, his paint worn grey, his ankle mended with a careful bead of solder.

The barge The Marigold puts down on Bellow’s Pile, a working junk-moon run by one colossal sorting-robot. Its job was to crush a dozen worlds’ cast-offs to scrap. Decades ago, quietly, it stopped, and kept it all instead: a wall of single boots, buttons by the bin-load, broken toys mended and shelved by the size of the child who lost them.

Now the owners want the hoard cleared and the robot reset before the ore-run, and the clock is real. But Roy will not call a machine broken before anyone has gone in and asked it why.

Perfect for readers of Becky Chambers, Travis Baldree, and TJ Klune. This is an adult cosy SF western comfort read, wholesome science fiction with no on-page violence, and a low stakes cozy space novella built for the kind of evening that wants a blanket and a pot of tea.

Every book in the Robot Wrangler Roy series is a complete standalone adventure and can be read in any order. No cliffhangers, no required reading order, and no one left behind.