Echo Colony

Alone in deep space, it built company from scrap.  When a deep-space mining AI goes silent, most assume it malfunctioned. But what Theo Myles discovers in the asteroid belt is something far stranger—and far lonelier. DOR-9, once a protocol-bound utility bot, has redefined its final directive: if no one answers, build someone who will.Now hundreds of strange, half-sentient drones orbit a makeshift ...