The Immortality Option

In this spectacular sequel to the acclaimed Code of the Lifemaker, James Hogan returns to the strange world of Titan, inhabited by bizarre self-conscious robots. Little is known about the civilization that gave birth to these machine intelligences until scientists discover blocks of embedded computer code that appear to be strangely out of place. Reactivating the computer codes results in the re-awakening of ancient alien beings, creators of the strange robot culture, totally alien and immensely powerful. And they are unhappy at being restrained within the narrow confines of the machines they find themselves in. They would much rather be the masters of all. But while the scientists are helpless against these mighty beings, Karl Zambendord, the media-star 'Psychic' and his support team prepares to meet the challenge. The alien intelligences might be intellectually superior and super rational, but this also makes them hyper-materialistic and mechanistic in their outlook and hence, totally unprepared for such higher concepts as the spiritual, the mystical, and the transcendental. And selling such notions is precisely Zambendorf's stock in trade. Barren of any organic life, Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, nevertheless became home to the Taloids--a race of self-aware robots, who worshipped a god called the Lifemaker. Humans could find no answers to the riddle of the Taloid's existence--until Titan's ancient computer banks yielded their extraordinary secrets.