Nanites Is Nanites
Release Date: Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Pages: 204 pages
In 'Nanites Is Nanites' by A. E. Voss, a shipping dispute sparks chaos in a Dyson swarm, forcing an Irish depot agent and a compliance officer to navigate through malfunctioning nanobots and bureaucratic madness.
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Nanites Is Nanites
When a five-credit shipping dispute ignites a Dyson-swarm-wide fiasco, one stubborn Irish depot agent, one exasperated compliance officer, and a few trillion self-replicating nanobots prove that bureaucracy can out-explode any supernova.
Mike Flannery has only two jobs on Westcote Habitat: follow the Interstellar Infrastructure Corporation’s rulebook and keep the freight moving. But when an AI customer refuses to pay the “hazardous-livestock” surcharge on a crate of innocuous construction nanites, Flannery digs in his heels—because rules are rules, and “nanites is nanites.” Within days, the microscopic machines have multiplied faster than gossip in a zero-gee pub, short-circuiting power grids, polishing floors they were never hired to clean, and turning the entire Dyson swarm into a viral punch-line.
As habitats bicker, AIs melt down in paradox loops, and a grand space-court descends into glittering robo-stampede, Flannery and sharp-witted inspector Siobhan O’Connell must choose: cling to the rulebook that caused the chaos—or rewrite reality on the fly before the stars themselves file a complaint.
Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams and John Scalzi,
When a five-credit shipping dispute ignites a Dyson-swarm-wide fiasco, one stubborn Irish depot agent, one exasperated compliance officer, and a few trillion self-replicating nanobots prove that bureaucracy can out-explode any supernova.
Mike Flannery has only two jobs on Westcote Habitat: follow the Interstellar Infrastructure Corporation’s rulebook and keep the freight moving. But when an AI customer refuses to pay the “hazardous-livestock” surcharge on a crate of innocuous construction nanites, Flannery digs in his heels—because rules are rules, and “nanites is nanites.” Within days, the microscopic machines have multiplied faster than gossip in a zero-gee pub, short-circuiting power grids, polishing floors they were never hired to clean, and turning the entire Dyson swarm into a viral punch-line.
As habitats bicker, AIs melt down in paradox loops, and a grand space-court descends into glittering robo-stampede, Flannery and sharp-witted inspector Siobhan O’Connell must choose: cling to the rulebook that caused the chaos—or rewrite reality on the fly before the stars themselves file a complaint.
Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams and John Scalzi,