To create his first god, computer scientist Lawrence Victor recruits a human template from deep in his past.
But what gods can be born from old memories and bad histories?
And who else's gods are waiting?
“‘It is not a being Dr Victor, it is a tool of man… And even if it were – alive – in some sense,’ he smiled again, ‘I am a soldier.
I do not need to concern myself with metaphysical quandaries. They are far beyond my mandate. I follow orders. And my order now is to kill.’”