The Rod of Light

Beneath a false landscape in a wild bare desert, the impossible is happening. Robots are trying to make souls.

So far Jasperodus is the only robot with one. But his came from a different source and he is sworn to secrecy – for such knowledge would be dangerous to man.

However progress is relentless. Gargan, a robot of frightening intellect, has deduced what he lacks and begun a ruthless, methodical search for it. Soon the very future of mankind is threatened, and Jasperodus must choose where his priorities lie: should he stop Gargan's search, and condemn his fellow robots to eternal non-existence, or must man be crushed by his own creation – metal constructs now turned completely, frighteningly alive?

Chilling, inventive and unusual, this is an exciting sequel to Soul of the Robot, from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."