Space Junker

By: Raine, David

A buried spaceship. A family secret. A robot who never stopped caring.

America is drying out. Farmland has turned to dust, communities survive on dwindling water supplies, and the sky is crowded with the wreckage of humanity's ambitions. Getting through another day takes ingenuity, stubbornness, and whatever still works.

For Kyte Jacobs, that includes Bob.

An aging industrial robot with a talent for keeping broken things alive, Bob has been part of the Jacobs family for generations. He tends the animals, scavenges power, and carries on with responsibilities nobody remembers giving him. In a world increasingly willing to abandon people, Bob has a habit of staying.

When Kyte and Bob uncover a spacecraft buried beneath the remains of the family property, they find more than a machine worth salvaging. Unit 402 is connected to Kyte's father-and to a past that powerful people would prefer to leave undisturbed.

Bringing it back to life attracts exactly the wrong attention.

Forced beyond the familiar boundaries of home, Kyte and Bob enter a fractured America where forgotten technology can be a lifeline, clean water can be worth killing for, and an unexpected stranger might offer the only way forward. Their discovery draws them into a mystery of family loyalty, corporate secrets, and decisions whose consequences are still unfolding.

But the ship is old. Survival is complicated. And neither Kyte nor Bob is particularly good at leaving someone behind.

Space Junker combines gritty science-fiction adventure with dry humor, resourceful characters, and the unlikely bonds between humans and the machines they build. Beneath the battered machinery and dangerous encounters is a story about connection: the small choices that matter, the people we carry with us, and the possibility that a damaged world might still be worth saving.

The first novel in David Raine's Space Junker series opens the door to an expanding world of robots, survivors, buried history, and adventures waiting among the things humanity left behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798998192807
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Last Flight Productions
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"