Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He's adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He's the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it. But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and now everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.
Metal rusts, belief crumbles, war is eternal—the battle for Penrose continues in the second installment in the series Appointed the Commander of the Emperor's Army of Sangrel, Wa-Ka-Mo-Do of Ko tries to establish relations between the existing robot population and the humans who have recently arrived on Yukawa. On the continent of Shull, Kavan forms the Uncertain Army and marches to Artemis City. However, discovering that the city's generals have made an alliance with the humans, he retreats to Stark where he plans the overthrow of Artemis and the humans. Karel too is on a journey—to be reunited with his wife Susan, and to learn more about his place on Penrose. But as tensions between robot and humans grow, it's only a matter of time before problems arise, and it's becoming more and more apparent that the humans are a lot more powerful than the robots first expected.
In a distant future plagued by an intelligent virus, a solitary woman faces a destructive mission that threatens her entire world.
All human life in the distant future is benignly monitored by the omnipresent watcher – but what if the watcher itself turns out to be a murderer?
Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life... only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical digger. Constantine arrives at the remote part-idyllic, part-nightmare settlement of Stonebreak and - unsettlingly - begins to confront the truth of his own unreality. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.