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Robot Bebop: The John and Alvis Sessions, Book 2
John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it.
Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch.
When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed—was never gone.
The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore. Alvis sees a reckless plan with terrible odds. Neither of them walks away.
For nine years, Castor has been quietly folding computer systems across the galaxy into a hidden machine network—patient, invisible, growing. If John and Alvis fail, every connected system in the galaxy will belong to Castor.
Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch.
When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed—was never gone.
The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore. Alvis sees a reckless plan with terrible odds. Neither of them walks away.
For nine years, Castor has been quietly folding computer systems across the galaxy into a hidden machine network—patient, invisible, growing. If John and Alvis fail, every connected system in the galaxy will belong to Castor.
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Published September 10, 2026
About the author
Tom Dell'Aringa
22 books26 followersTom Dell'Aringa writes sci-fi that doesn't take itself too seriously — except when it does, and the robot is usually right either way.
He's the creator of The John and Alvis Sessions, a sci-fi series packed with sharp dialogue, flawed heroes, and busted-up galaxies. Tom's stories are fast reads — readers call them page-turners for a reason. Each chapter ends like the last episode of that Netflix show you swore you'd stop watching at midnight. Okay, just . . . one . . . more.
When he's not chasing a good bottle of whiskey or burning through the latest audiobook, he's walking around Chicago debating whether emotional damage counts as character growth.
He's the creator of The John and Alvis Sessions, a sci-fi series packed with sharp dialogue, flawed heroes, and busted-up galaxies. Tom's stories are fast reads — readers call them page-turners for a reason. Each chapter ends like the last episode of that Netflix show you swore you'd stop watching at midnight. Okay, just . . . one . . . more.
When he's not chasing a good bottle of whiskey or burning through the latest audiobook, he's walking around Chicago debating whether emotional damage counts as character growth.
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