Some machines break. The Sisters of Mercy are running exactly as they were made to. That is the whole trouble.The barge The Marigold comes down through fog onto a half-forgotten moon out along the Scatter, answering a posted job. A salvage agent named Verity Quill has been sent to decommission an old order of care-robots and book the moon for reclamation, and she wants a wrangler to handle the part the paperwork cannot: the robots will not leave.Ro...

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 househol...

The sea rose. The world drowned. People adapted, and lost each other.Wren was one of the four who saved Havenswell: the scout who steered the medicine runners through the storm and came home a hero. But heroes carry private cargo. Hers is a letter, seven years old, folded soft as cloth, written to Rhea, the engineer who was traded to the drowned city's deep-dwellers, who asked Wren to descend with her, and whom Wren, who has never been able to stay anywhere, refuse...

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 th...

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 ...

The Drowned City Tides of Tomorrow Book Two by August MaeThey came seeking medicine. They found a world.The towers of Old Bristol rise from the water like the fingers of a buried giant, and in their heights, people have built lives the Estuary Collective never imagined. Vertical gardens cascade from balconies. Bridges span between skyscrapers at dizzying heights. And somewhere in this maze of glass and steel, strangers are watching.

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 choic...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A drowned-mine rescue and a love story crossing a flooded ocean: hopeful post-apocalyptic fiction for readers of Becky Chambers and Station Eleven.On the first fair tide of the year, scout Wren sails south to the tin coast: a country of granite carns standing out of a silver sea, where divers work the drowned mines their great-grandparents worked dry. For the first time she sails into a strange ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The sea rose. The world drowned. People adapted, and lost each other.Wren was one of the four who saved Havenswell: the scout who steered the medicine runners through the storm and came home a hero. But heroes carry private cargo. Hers is a letter, seven years old, folded soft as cloth, written to Rhea, the engineer who was traded to the drowned city's deep-dwellers, who asked Wren to descend with her, and whom ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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 eve...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.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. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Drowned City Tides of Tomorrow Book Two by August MaeThey came seeking medicine. They found a world.The towers of Old Bristol rise from the water like the fingers of a buried giant, and in their heights, people have built lives the Estuary Collective never imagined. Vertical gardens cascade from balconies. Bridges span between skyscrapers at dizzying heights. And somewhere in this m...