Anderson Poul Genesis

Astronaut Christian Brannock witnessed how humans developed artificial intelligence - until it was finally possible to feed the human personality into a Computer and thus give it a kind of immortality. When he is assigned to check the Supercomputer Gaia, which controls the fate of the Earth, however, he encounters unimaginable things ...

The bestselling author of such classic novels as Brain Wave and The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson won just about every award the science fiction and fantasy field has to offer. He has won multiple Hugos and Nebulas, the John W. Campbell Award, The Locus Poll Award, the Skylark Award, and the SFWA Grandmaster Award for Lifetime Achievement. His recent books include Harvest of Stars, The Stars are also On Fire, Operation Chaos, Operation Luna, Genesis, Mother of Kings, and Going for Infinity, a collection and retrospective of his life's work. Poul Anderson lived in Orinda, California where he passed away in 2001.