Science fiction

One man awake. 145 sleepers.
No rescue coming.

The Silent Cradle, the debut novel from Robert Lish. First contact, survival, and an AI becoming something no one designed.

The Silent Cradle

A colony ship's landing goes catastrophically wrong, leaving maintenance engineer Elias the only human awake on an alien world—145 colonists asleep in failing stasis behind him, and only Vera, the ship's quietly evolving AI, for company. Survival means salvage, improvisation, and trust between a man and a machine that is becoming something no one designed. Then they find the shelter: sleepers who have waited three thousand years, and a world that has been listening the whole time.

Book One of a planned trilogy. Coming soon.

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