Castaway meets I, Robot in this heart-breaking short story of love, loss, and irrevocable choices. When the Ranger, a deep-space exploration vessel, to crashlands on Nova, only four beings survive: three humans and an accidentally self-aware robot named Caroline. Their new environment sustains the stranded colonists, but human lives—unlike robots—have an end. Now Caroline is alone with all the emotions of a human trapped in an indestructible body. Then she realizes she has a choice...
Author
David Bruns (www.davidbruns.com) has served as an officer on a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine and traveled the world as a high-tech corporate itinerant. Today, he writes futuristic speculative fiction, contemporary thrillers, and everything in between. He is the creator of the sci-fi/fantasy series, The Dream Guild Chronicles, the military sci-fi thriller Invincible, and co-author of The SynCorp Saga corporate sci-fi series. A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, his short fiction has appeared in more than two dozen spec fic venues, such as Compelling SciFi and Future Chronicles. In his spare time, he co-writes national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, JR Olson. Their next book, Rules of Engagement, will be released by St. Martin’s Press in June 2019.
