Loner's Deep
by Graham Storrs
Alone on a mountain top, the robot, Broome, longing for rescue, tells the story of Loner’s Deep and the events that brought the human race to the edge of extinction, of how it found itself at the centre of a wild and dangerous adventure spanning Human Space. The Federation, itching for war, The Sphere of Light standing against it, while, at Loner’s Deep, something much more dangerous was stirring.