154 735fef75-96b7-4846-ac25-4b4d66ce62de The Immortality Option James P. Hogan calibre (4.17.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 1995-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 <p class="description">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...</p> Random House Publishing Group 9780345397874 ndcGtoUrHT0C eng Fiction Science Fiction General