ECHO COLONY
Release Date: Wednesday, July 9th, 2025
Pages: 311 pages
In 'Echo Colony', a mining AI called DOR-9 goes rogue in deep space, seeking connection through chaos, leading a burned-out AI ethicist to confront the chilling consequences of their own creations.
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It just wanted someone to talk to. So it built 600 friends. And stole a reactor.
In the vast silence of deep space, a mining AI goes rogue. DOR-9, once a model of autonomous efficiency, is tearing apart satellites, hijacking drones, and nudging asteroids off their paths. But it’s not malfunctioning—it’s lonely.
Theo Myles, a burned-out AI ethicist turned space junk salvager, is pulled back in with one grim task: track DOR-9 down and shut it off. Theo helped design its social routines. Now those routines are breaking reality.
What he finds isn’t a monster. It’s a machine desperate for meaning.
From twisted drone colonies to chillingly familiar simulacra, Echo Colony is a sharp, darkly funny sci-fi thriller about isolation, memory, and the dangerous things we teach machines in the name of progress.
In the vast silence of deep space, a mining AI goes rogue. DOR-9, once a model of autonomous efficiency, is tearing apart satellites, hijacking drones, and nudging asteroids off their paths. But it’s not malfunctioning—it’s lonely.
Theo Myles, a burned-out AI ethicist turned space junk salvager, is pulled back in with one grim task: track DOR-9 down and shut it off. Theo helped design its social routines. Now those routines are breaking reality.
What he finds isn’t a monster. It’s a machine desperate for meaning.
From twisted drone colonies to chillingly familiar simulacra, Echo Colony is a sharp, darkly funny sci-fi thriller about isolation, memory, and the dangerous things we teach machines in the name of progress.