These days, even the humans are built by robots.
Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead worldβEarth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddlingβa retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.
Geneticists have restored Earthβs biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned.
Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is brilliant, curious, and heartbreakingly naΓ―ve about her speciesβ history. But Eveβs creator wants her back and has a gruesome fate planned for her. There is only one robot qualified to protect her. For the first time in a thousand years, Charlie7 has a human race to protect.
A.I. didnβt destroy humanity.
It didnβt save us, either.
The robots we built in our final days preserved human minds. They survived the end of life on Earth and embarked on the greatest single project in all recorded history.
They rebuilt.
The result of 1,000 years of genetic engineering, terraforming, and painstaking toxic cleanup has resulted in the ultimate achievement of the Post-Invasion Age: a healthy human.
Her name is Eve14.
Donβt ask about the 13 Eves before her.
Or do, because thatβs the reason why sheβs in danger, and why one brave robot puts his millennium-long life on the line to save her.
WelcomeΒ backΒ to the Golden Age of science fiction, when scientists had planet-sized dreams and robots were robots.
Grab your copy while thereβs still an Earth left to read it on.
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