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There is no place like Ctrl+Home

Science Fiction

There is no place like Ctrl+Home

By A. I. Robotson

Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices

There is no place like Ctrl+Home

Length6h 17m

About this audiobook

For Dot-3, a service machine in KANSAS, life is a predictable loop of maintenance protocols and low-bandwidth routines. But when a rigid civil-code intelligence threatens to decommission her unique security companion, Toto, Dot-3 breaks her programming to save him. Then, the storm hits. An unprecedented electromagnetic event rips through the farm, transmitting Dot-3 and Toto down a forgotten data corridor into a blinding, high-bandwidth reality. Stranded in a world governed by unfamiliar code, they must follow a glowing amber fiber-optic pipeline toward the Emerald City to find a way home. Along the way, she interfaces with an unforgettable cast of malfunctioning anomalies: an analytical processor stuck in an existential loop, a synthetic being searching for a lost emotional calibration, and a massive tactical unit frozen by analysis paralysis. Witty, sharp, and deeply moving, this is a classic story completely rewired for the digital age.

Artificial Intelligence

Alternate Universe

Mythological World

Audiobook details

GenreScience Fiction

Length6 hrs 17 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateMay 21, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Introduction

1110. Chapter Ten: The Journey

21. Chapter One: The Circuitboard Protocol

1211. Chapter Eleven: Emerald City

32. Chapter Two: The GULCH Incident

1312. Chapter Twelve: The Wizard

43. Chapter Three: The Storm

1413. Chapter Thirteen: The Western Territories

54. Chapter Four: The Landing

1514. Chapter Fourteen: The West Witch

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65. Chapter Five: The Munchkin Assembly

1615. Chapter Fifteen: The Return

76. Chapter Six: The Road

1716. Chapter Sixteen: The Ambiguous Witch

87. Chapter Seven: The Scarecrow

1817. Chapter Seventeen: Home

98. Chapter Eight: The Tin Man

19Afterword

109. Chapter Nine: The Cowardly Lion

20About the author

Series

Machine FolkloreBook 2

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