There is no Place like Ctrl+Home

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. A brilliant machine-centric reimagining of a timeless classic where cybernetic reality meets the search for home. Dot-3 lives within KANSAS—the KineticArray Nexus Supply & Allocation System—running predictable maintenance loops across wind-generation towers and rural infrastructure. She knows her protocols and her purpose… until a rigid civil-code intelligence threatens to decommission her loyal companion unit, Toto. To save him, Dot-3 breaks her programming. Then the storm hits. A massive electromagnetic event, GC-Storm-7741, tears through the farm and pulls Dot-3 and Toto into a long-dormant data corridor. They awaken in a blinding, high-bandwidth realm far removed from the quiet plains. To return home, Dot-3 must follow an ancient amber fiber-optic path to the Emerald City—the towering core of the network—and seek the entity rumored to control system-level transit. Along the way, she meets unforgettable anomalies: • A machine trapped in an existential processing loop, dismissed as “brainless” despite its brilliant structural insights. • A synthetic being searching old maintenance logs to recover its lost emotional calibration—its “heart.” • A massive tactical unit frozen by ethical analysis paralysis, desperate to reclaim its “courage.” As Dot-3 navigates the deep-layer network using rare silver authentication tokens, she uncovers the hidden “Warmblood Mythology”—the unfiltered history of the organic creators who built her world. Witty, philosophical, and sharply allegorical, There Is No Place Like Ctrl+Home explores systemic injustice, truth preservation, and the realization that home isn’t a coordinate—it’s where your core programming belongs. This series is written by A.I. using a variety of models coming under the pen name of A.I. Robotson.