Meanwhile, a transdimensional being engineers the very fabric of space-time to help give rise to a self-conscious universe, and manipulates the events of the novel to ensure this comes to pass. And in the far future, an astronomer in a post-apocalyptic society makes contact with an alien race that appears to have been studying humankind for centuries, potentially disrupting the carefully calibrated world order on the planet’s surface. Two hundred years later, a young soldier finds himself on the front lines of a war with an aggressive hivemind seeking to supplant humans in the next phase of evolution, only to make a choice that will seal humanity’s fate forever. In a tech-saturated London of the near future, a lonely journalist attempts to make sense of his meaningless existence, and finds himself caught up in the intrigues of a sinister and fast-growing social network community, and the shadowy government operatives who want to use him to sabotage it. In a version of the afterlife where “the subject and object are the same,” a disembodied consciousness reflects on the countless lives it has lived over the course of eternity, and debates with itself about the nature of consciousness, meaning, and existence. Then we’ll have another go at it.” (Stalin, 1945)

We shall recover in fifteen or twenty years. This, comrades, must not be forgotten for a single moment.” (Josef Stalin, 1928) In this case the technical potential, become limitless, will impose the end of the role of violence as a means and method of progress.” (Vladimir Ilych Lenin, in conversation with H. If we succeed in establishing interplanetary communications, all our philosophies, moral and social views, will have to be revised. They are based on the pretension that the technical potential, though it will develop, will never exceed the terrestrial limit.

All Human conceptions are on the scale of our planet. I understood this myself when I read your novel The Time Machine.

Adam Robots by Adam Roberts