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."
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Barrington J. Bayley
Barrington J. Bayley (1937–2008) was a British science fiction writer. He was born in Birmingham and educated in Shropshire. He died of complications from bowel cancer on October 14, 2008.
Bayley worked a number of jobs before joining the Royal Air Force in 1955. His first published story, "Combat's End", had seen print the year before in Vargo Statten Magazine.
In the 1960s, Bayley's short stories featured regularly in New Worlds magazine and then later in various New Worlds paperback anthologies, becoming friends with New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock and joining science fiction's New Wave movement. His first book, Star Virus, was followed by more than a dozen other novels; his downbeat, gloomy approach to novel writing has been cited as influential on the likes of M. John Harrison, Brian Stableford and Bruce Sterling.
Soul of the Robot
Soul of the Robot consists of two books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
