Here, on Procyon, the unimaginable has happened: the creators swapped places with their creations. AI carriers, using technology devised by the long-gone seleneites, recreated… people. Stripped of memories of a past they didn’t really have, they became test material for the androids. The best of the generation—Jan Kowalski and Marie Lerman—risk their lives in search of answers to eternal questions: who are we? where did we come from? why do we exist? Unexpected support comes from a deadly enemy—Colonel Nagaev, a supermachine and a superhuman in one body…