The next stage of evolution has just man has merged with machine on a spiritual level to produce an android unlike any other. As the world applauds this gigantic leap for mankind, one man, Bernard Shively, an analyst by trade, doesn’t applaud. He still harbors deep-seated resentment for the machine that he blames for getting him fired. But that will all change as he devises a simple plan to get revenge on his former employer, A bonus will be destroying the first evolved man in the process.
Doctor Charles Gleason has been selected by the imagineers to climb the next rung on the evolutionary ladder. When his soul is transferred to his new golden body, he’s worshipped like a god on earth. But this god falls victim to a cunning ex-analyst with an overachieving mind trapped in an underachieving body. And the fall is spectacular.
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