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![]() | The Immortality Option (1995) (The second book in the Code of the Lifemaker series) A novel by James P Hogan |
Titan, Saturn'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...
Genre: Science Fiction
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...
Genre: Science Fiction
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Hardback Editions
January 1995 : Hardback
| Title: The Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-345-37915-2 / 978-0-345-37915-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Del Rey Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
May 2010 : Paperback
| Title: The Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan ISBN: 1-60450-457-9 / 9781604504576 (USA edition) Publisher: Phoenix Pick Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2003 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Immortality Option (Code of the Lifemaker, Book 2) Author(s): James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-7434-7163-6 / 978-0-7434-7163-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Baen Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1995 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-345-39787-8 / 978-0-345-39787-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Del Rey Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1995 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-345-37925-X / 978-0-345-37925-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Del Rey Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
1995 : Paperback
| Title: The Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan Publisher: New York: Ballantine Books, 1995 Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
May 2010 : Kindle edition
| Title: The Immortality Option Author(s): James P. Hogan Publisher: Phoenix Pick (www.PhoenixPick.com) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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