Take Us to Your Machines

First contact has already happened. Humanity wasn't invited.

For eleven years, Nell has kept East Reach Station running alongside Mica, the synthetic person who knows its failing systems as well as she does. They share difficult repairs, private jokes, and the comfortable silences of an old friendship.

Then a repair arrives from a source nobody can identify. It works. And it leads Nell to a conversation Earth's machines have been having without us.

The visitors offer knowledge that could transform life on Earth. Water flows. Equipment stops failing. Communities have good reasons to welcome the changes. But when people object, their wishes barely register with the beings making the decisions.

Mica has been speaking to the visitors. He also has friendships, hopes, and plans Nell knows nothing about. For the first time, the future he wants may lead far beyond the life they have built together.

As Nell fights for a human voice in the exchange, she must decide what it means to stand beside Mica when his freedom could cost her the person she trusts most.

Take Us to Your Machines is a standalone first-contact novel with an intimate human-AI friendship at its heart, for readers drawn to alien minds, artificial consciousness, and futures that change the meaning of belonging. Book 3 in Liminal Sci-Fi; no previous reading required.