Book details of 'Immortality Option'

Title	Immortality Option
Author(s)	James P. Hogan, James Patrick Hogan
ISBN	0345397878
Language	English
Published	December 1995
Publisher	Del Rey

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
In this sequel to his "Code of the Lifemaker", Hogan explains the origins of the Taloids of Titan: a society of self-aware, replicating, and intelligent robots. The plotting provides enough tension to make it a real page turner, while Hogan's flares of wit provide welcome comic relief along the way. The only major disappointment was that the ending does strongly resemble a certain H. G. Wells novel. The story continues to look at the conflict of science and credulity. A larger topic in this book, however, is the relative survival value of competition versus cooperation. Hogan's description of an electronic form of genetics, evolution, and sexuality is thought provoking. At the same time, I had a nagging feeling that I didn't understand all of it. (Possibly this comes of trying to understand fiction.) The design of a universal, cross-platform, undetectable, and unremovable computer virus (within the space of a few hours) does, I think, give the alien antagonists a bit too much credit. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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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...