The Immortality Option (Code of the Lifemaker, Book 2) - Softcover

Hogan, James P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743471636 ISBN 13: 9780743471633

Publisher: Baen, 2003

Synopsis

Living on the frozen world of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the robotic race of the Taloids is discovered by Earth, completely stumping the scientific community, until Taloid digital DNA is recovered from the moon's ancient computer banks. Reprint.

About this title

From the Publisher

I had fun editing this book because Jim Hogan knows so much more science and engineering than I do that his ideas always astonish me. And mixed in with the hard-SF thought experiments are likeable characters--if you like Larry Niven's books, you'll like James P. Hogan's as well, for the same reasons.

                                        --Ellen Key Harris, Editor, Del Rey Books

From the Inside Flap

n's largest moon, was frozen and lifeless...but only by some definitions!
Organic life had never evolved on its barren surface, but somehow Titan had become home to the Taloids, a race of self-aware robots who lived in competing city-states, grew houses and tools, tended their robotic herds, and worshipped a god called the Lifemaker.
When humans discovered the Taloids on Titan, they suspected that the robots' sentience had evolved by accident--artificial intelligence gone wrong. But where was the ancient civilization that had spawned them? With no help from the Taloids--who seemed to know nothing of their own origins--Earth's finest scientists were stumped.
Then strange blocks of code were discovered in Titan's ancient computer banks. Neither Taloid digital DNA nor the operating system for Titan's robotic "ecology," the code had clearly lain undisturbed for eons. But now, with human help, it was beginning to activate at last...

Edition details

• Publisher: Baen
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743471636
• ISBN 13: 9780743471633
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Baen James