Book Description
A brilliant robotic scientist breaks the rules in an attempt to make his impaired son whole. Meshing android and human minds is considered impossible, a societal taboo, and illegal. Can the sorrow of a father, the challenge of a feat never accomplished, and the promise of normalcy for a son who has never known it motivate a man beyond his ethical boundaries? The remnants of human civilization struggle to survive on an alien planet, having discarded many of the norms and behaviors that led to the Breaking of the Old World back on Earth. Religion, money, weapons, hatred, and disease are all things of the past. Android companions perform menial tasks and maintenance on their domed complexes in the toxic outside environment. After three generations will their utopian society, built on universal respect, hold? Or will basic human traits begin to return and put them on a path toward tragedy similar to that of their ancestors in the Old World?
