Book description
On a world of intelligent robots who seem to have forgotten their own
distant past, it is a time of war as the soldiers of Artemis City set
out to conquer everything within range on the continent of Shull,
killing or converting every robot they capture to their philosophy,
while viewing their own wire-based minds as nothing but metal to be used
or recycled for the cause.
Elsewhere, the more individualistic robots of Turing City believe they
are something more than metal, but when the Artemisian robot Kavan sets
out on a determined crusade to prove himself, even Turing City can’t
stand against him. Increasingly tied up with Kavan’s destiny is Karel, a
Turing robot with elements of Artemis’s philosophy already woven into
his mind ... as well as Karel’s wife Susan, and their recently created
child..
Following the inevitable violence and destruction, Artemisian ambition
focuses elsewhere and a journey begins towards the frozen kingdoms of
the north ... and towards the truth about the legendary ‘Book of
Robots’, a text which may finally explain the real history of this
strange world ...
In a completely alien but brilliantly realized landscape, here is a
powerful story of superb action, barbaric cruelty and intense emotional
impact. Tony Ballantyne lives in Oldham with his wife and two
children. He is the author of the Recursion trilogy, as well as many
acclaimed short stories that have been published in magazines and
anthologies around the world. With this, his fourth novel, he begins an
exciting new series.
