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Featured Sci-fi: Sentient Relic (Peregrine Outpost Book 5) by Stan C. Smith

January 30, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Sentient Relic (Peregrine Outpost Book 5) by Stan C. Smith

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She was built to teach humanity. Now she’s the last voice of a forgotten world.

Alone in the ruins of a dead colony, a sentient robot prepares her final message… and her final act.

On the distant planet Tenoth, terraforming failed, and humanity’s dream of a thriving colony perished in a tide of flesh-eating bugs. The human embryos meant to populate this world were destroyed. The only survivors were the robotic teachers built to nurture and teach the humans. Centuries later, only one teacher remains: Presence.

Wandering through ruined structures and broken memories, Presence decides to end her existence. But first, she will build a final record—one that tells the story of the colony’s failure and warns any future explorers about the deadly creatures waiting beneath Tenoth’s soil. As she reconstructs her past, Presence wrestles with grief, loneliness, and a fading sense of purpose.

Each chapter she records is a piece of her soul, a confession from a sentient machine that once had hope. But as her message nears completion, something impossible happens—something that could change everything she thought she knew about her purpose… and her future.

Sentient Relic, a novella, is a prequel for the Peregrine Outpost series, an epic post-apocalyptic, space colonization story.

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Featured Sci-fi: Genesis Sequence (Across Horizons) by Stan C. Smith

April 13, 2022 by Carolynn

Featured Sci-fi: Genesis Sequence by Stan C. Smith

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A young Neanderthal. A robotic drone. A new future begins.

Banished from her tribe, Skyra Una-Loto wanders through an ancient landscape teeming with fierce predators. Skyra searches for a way to overcome the crippling fear that has plagued her since witnessing her birthmother’s brutal death.

The problem is, to overcome her fear and reclaim her strength, she must attack and kill predators that will probably kill her first.

Skyra’s desperate quest takes an unexpected turn when she encounters a creature unlike anything she has seen before. It walks on four legs, yet it can also fly. It eats fire instead of flesh, and it speaks a strange language called English. Its name is Ripple.

Ripple cannot believe its good luck. Having jumped 47,000 years into the past, the robotic drone has completed its research mission and is stranded here forever. Now it has found a living, breathing Neanderthal to study. The more Ripple learns about Skyra, the more the drone is convinced she is important to the future of this new world—but only if Ripple can keep her alive.

Genesis Sequence, a prequel to the Across Horizons series, is for readers who love time travel, wilderness survival, and unforgettable characters.

Filed Under: Box Set List Featured Sci-Fi, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Across Horizons, Genesis Sequence, Stan C. Smith

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