Errors in Humanity: Tales from the MaRP

by Robert Day

Deep within the unknowable universe is the vast Bootes Void, is an empty void of Brobdingnagian proportions. At over 330 million light-years across, the emptiness strikes fear into the heart of even the most stalwart. Near the center of this void sits the Tenebris Matter Reclamation Platform, or MaRP for short. It’s a matter reclamation platform sitting at the edge of a supermassive black hole.

Moon sized and built long ago in a far off past, it is inhabited by bots.

These are the dark tales of the bot’s the struggle to give meaning to an artificial life lived on the MaRP, sitting on the edge of an endless death; the constant alien incursions, and the battle to repel them before they can steal ancient technology and perhaps even destroy the MaRP itself. Dark at times, yet also humorous, horror lurks around each corner as they go through each cycle, trying to survive in a place designed for death.

Join them out in the deepest black, where life and death are razor thin and the unfathomable fingers of twisted gravitation pull, mangle, and warp.

512 pages, Paperback

Published November 11, 2024

About the author

American novelist and short-story writer. He has been awarded a National Endowment to the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Yaddo and McDowell Fellowships, a Maryland Arts Council Award, and the Edgar Wolfe Award for distinguished fiction.