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What are the Bombs? They’re ancient. They’re sentient. They’re floating

They’re ancient. They’re sentient. They’re floating superweapons. And they’re… weirdly charming?

When Fetch first introduced us to the Bombs, readers had one reaction: “Wait, what?”

Then they had a second: “Wait... why do I kind of love them?”

By the time Clueless rolls around, the Bombs are back — and they’ve made themselves impossible to ignore.

Let’s meet the Bombs. Again.

What are the Bombs?

Short answer: star killing AI weapons from a truly messed up human war.

Long answer: …it’s complicated.

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Diplomacy, Drool, and Dogged Determination: Meet Finder Forget what you

Forget what you know about ambassadors. Finder, lynch pin of the Kind's delegation in Clueless, isn’t your average diplomat. He’s dog-shaped, snack-obsessed, and terrifying in all the ways that matter — especially when he wants something.

With a name like Finder of things lost and found of the Retrievers of Ocean and Lake, you’d expect him to be sharp. You wouldn’t expect him to mark diplomatic territory by peeing on a sentient bomb.

Yet here we are.

In Fetch, he found humans fascinating. In ...

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Previously, in Chaos… A Trunk Line Recap So, you’ve decided to read

So, you’ve decided to read Clueless. That’s… brave.

But don’t worry. Before we dive headfirst into interstellar diplomacy, rogue AIs, sentient bombs, and cat empires with questionable manners, let’s catch you up on just how badly things have already gone.

Trunk Line – Where It All Started Going Wrong

Captain Tim Symbles never meant to crash into a backwater planet named Chatsmic. He especially didn’t mean to get arrested for landing without clearance, or to drag his crew into a black-ops...

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Clueless: Trunk Line Book Three - Tales of the Orion Spur (Trunk Line - tales of the Orion spur 3)

Diplomacy, sabotage, sentient bombs, and interspecies politics. Captain Tim Symbles is clearly not the man for the job. But he’s all we’ve got.

Fresh off accidentally surviving two galaxy-threatening adventures, Captain Symbles thought he might finally get a break. Instead, he’s been appointed humanity’s ambassador to the first full interstellar...

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Fetch!

Finder is a genius at finding things and bringing them to people. That the things may not, in fact, have been lost, nor in fact, technically belong to him is something he always felt should involve some distance and a sense of perspective - several light-years of both, preferably. However, when he and his crew find a derelict alien wreck he...