Estimated Arrival: Eventually: A Feel-Good Starship Crew Comedy – Kobo eBook

A rescue crew with an ageing ship, a galaxy full of impossible emergencies, and a mystery that has been waiting forty years to be answered.

At the edge of the interstellar lanes, the Halfway Motor Club is still answering the call. Its battered rescue tug, the Marigold, may not be the fastest ship in space, but its crew has something far more important: an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind.

Odessa Quill has spent twenty-three years bringing stranded travellers home. Alongside her are Barn, a gentle giant with extraordinary mechanical instincts; Mott, a four-handed claims adjuster with an unusual talent for knitting and remembering small kindnesses; and Pip, a brilliant young engineer discovering that the real world rarely follows the handbook.

Their rescue missions are anything but ordinary.

A disastrous wedding convoy needs an impossible repair. An ageing community faces the arrival of automated rescue drones. A stranded cable car becomes an unlikely arena for an extraordinary team effort. And across the lanes, forgotten ships, unexpected friendships and peculiar emergencies keep the Marigold flying.

But one transmission changes everything.

A voice from forty years ago calls the Marigold by name. It belongs to Ada Halfway, the missing founder of the Club, and it comes from somewhere that should not exist: Marker Zero.

As Odessa and her crew investigate the impossible signal, an old family secret, a dangerous stretch of folded space and the future of the Halfway Motor Club begin to converge.

Meanwhile, the Club is fighting another battle. Membership is falling, money is running out, and a powerful automated competitor threatens to make everything they stand for obsolete.

Can a small rescue crew, an ageing tug and a community built on kindness survive a universe increasingly convinced that everything should be automated?

Estimated Arrival: Eventually is a warm, witty and heartfelt science-fiction adventure about found family, unlikely heroes, interstellar rescue missions, forgotten histories and the extraordinary importance of showing up when someone needs help.

Because some things are worth rescuing.

And nobody gets left on the lane.