Sylvan’s cyborg body is broken, his friend is missing, he’s being haunted, and yet a well-known fashion mogul has offered him the business deal of a lifetime. When Sylvan’s ghost turns out to be a digital passenger in his cybernetics, another apparition appears at his doorstep: a familiar looking robot named Fern. Despite forging powerful allies and working diligently to repay his debt of gratitude, Sylvan can’t shake the persistent reminders of his long-lost housebot, Robbie. The ghost has some of Robbie’s memories, but Fern has Robbie’s body… Is it possible one of them is actually Robbie, or are even bots incapable of outrunning death?

Love character-driven sci-fi? Enjoy sad, anxious cyborgs and robots? Don't mind a cozy, laid back read? You'll devour this!

If you like: Asimov's robot series, Cargill's Sea of Rust, Newitz's Autonomous, Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild Built, Detroit: Become Human, Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries, or any variety of character-driven sci-fi in between, you'll love this book.


This book can be enjoyed as a standalone novella, but includes characters touched upon in The Warm Machine and The Lucky Machine, both part of The Machines series.

 

Launching October 29th, 2026, The Gone Machine will be released as an eBook as well as a paperback/hardcover book.