Robot Wrangler Roy and The Lamplighter

di August Mae (Autore)

Digital Voice Marcus (Narratore)

August Mae, 2026

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Far out past the dead end of the trade lanes, the loneliest light on the Scatter still turns. Lampwick, the first-generation keeper that has tended this beacon alone for longer than anyone alive, goes on lighting the dark for ships that stopped coming years ago. Now its power core is failing, and a remote sector authority has read the faithful old keeper off a safety case as a glitch: switch it off, clear the risk, let the dead sector go dark. Robot wrangler Roy will not have it. A thing everyone agrees on, he knows, is not the same as a thing anyone has checked, and a machine that has kept a light for a lifetime does not keep it for nothing. So Roy declines the shutdown and goes out to the silent station, to ask a lonely keeper why it lights the dark for an empty sky. Warm, funny, quietly wise, and threaded with the soft, wistful pull of a long watch kept in the dark, this is a comfort read for grown-ups about the faithful things a hurried world is too quick to write down to a fault. There is no villain here and no disaster to avert, only a closure that is all arithmetic, a being faithful past the point anyone remembered, and the difference between a machine that is broken and a machine that is simply, faithfully, unseen. 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.

• Autore: August Mae
• Narratore: Digital Voice Marcus
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 02:43:45
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: August Mae
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 1990000089367