HEAVEN ENGINE

A Future Of Designer Humans Smart Machines Protean Technology. Our Dwindled Descendents Exiled To Large Space Stations Visit Cleansed Earth Occasionally For Gravity- And Sensory-Deprivation Therapy. Human Longevity At Last Attained Ironically Creates A Great Plague Of Suicidal Despair Disnovelling Born Of The Intruding Longer Prospect Of Bloody Nature And Of The Impersonal Hurtling Cosmic Vastitudes. Centwen A Resurrected Twentieth Century Archetype Joined By Elites And Archetypes From Other Centuries Learns From His Tour Guides The Superbot Prodigy And Its Human Creator Great Psychodor About A Last-Chance Project To Create Not A Mythical But A Secular Dynamic Intelligent Heaven; And If It Succeeds Whether Or Not Transformed Humans And/Or Their Intelligent Machines Can Escape To It.