By now, you’re probably asking, “The inevitable what?” Despair no longer. The Inevitable is a novel I wrote.
Oh, you want to know more? I can help there, too.
The Inevitable is a science fiction novel about a robot, named Tuck, who’s running out of time and doesn’t want to die.
Tuck is on his last legs, literally. He is the last functioning bot in the galaxy, a broken machine that used to look like a man. Now he wanders between planets, searching for spare parts that can keep him running for a few more years. But he’s out of parts, and he’s nearly out of time.
He’s a valuable relic of a bygone era when bots were a luxury on Earth, back before they were hunted down and destroyed. More and more collectors want Tuck, damaged or not, as the centerpiece of their collections. They’ll do anything to get him, but Tuck will do anything to stay free and functional.
The truth is, Tuck is afraid to die.
He was originally programmed to value human life, even if they don’t value his, but he can’t ignore his own need to survive, at any cost. That’s why Tuck is haunted by memories of the sixteen people he has killed over the last 150 years.
After a particularly dangerous run-in with a collector, Tuck meets a mysterious and wealthy woman who offers a solution. In exchange for some help in a less-than-legal business venture, she’ll give Tuck what he really wants: immortality. It’s a bad idea, and Tuck knows it, but he can’t ignore it.
Even if it means killing again.
The Inevitable is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, or Powell’s.
Praise for The Inevitable
“It’s not every day a robot moves me to tears. But that’s what Daniel Hope has done in The Inevitable. This is a miraculous novel, part sci fi, part thriller, and all heart and soul. The Inevitable is destined to be a classic, the kind of gem that readers will talk about for years to come.”
Rene Denfield, bestselling author of The Child Finder
“Hope shows off his worldbuilding chops in this action-packed space romp that grapples with the conundrum of mortality. But between scrappy spaceships, concealed ray guns, and fledgling AI’s, Hope doesn’t lose sight of what really makes a grand story: character.”
Jonah Barnett, author of Moss-Covered Claws and filmmaker
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