num_pages: 406
description: It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own-in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims...Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago-by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.
language: English
title: Recursion
titlecomplete: Recursion (AI Trilogy #1)
genres: Fiction, Artificial Intelligence, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Fantasy
ratings_count: 550
series: AI Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Philip K. Dick Award
publisher: Spectra