They re-coded DNA and achieved immortality. They gained eternity. But in losing death, they lost what drove them, what made them move, what made them use life… God no longer became necessary to them—why would immortals need gods?—and the temples were turned into public houses. Even the bailiffs close cases over debts. And above it all rules the Law. The Law of Choice. And their eternal lives—in the boxes of continental mega-cities, ant-hill metropolises, or out in the icy expanses of Siberia, or in Indostan scorched by nuclear charges—anywhere, became like Hell. It turned into an endless Hell, with no hope for a second coming. Only almost nobody understands it… For the re-coded DNA segments responsible for aging were also responsible for the soul…