In a bleak, dry world unable to recover from total war 20 years before, a crazed megalomaniac uses his computer genius to control an army of indestructible combat machines and lord power over surviving communities. In southern China, an ambitious research doctor studies the human brain. The clash of technologies drives Artificial Intelligence across the threshold, and the machines take over. One man, attaining special powers of insight from a near-death experience and motivated within a euphoric but abuse-founded love triangle, leads a small resistance group. Can he succeed? What does he ultimately discover!?
.. sequel to the highly-acclaimed novel, Human Stock
