The Rod of Light

"Barrington J. Bayley, whom Michael Moorcock has called 'the most original SF writer of his generation,' is the author of such well-nown novels as 'The Garments of Caean' and 'The Soul of the Robot.' Now he has written a visionary adventure novel that places him in the front rank of SF innovators. It is a future so distant that our own era is lost in the archeological past. Robot evolution has advanced to the point that intelligent robots have liberated themselves against the humans who work to exterminate them using super-machines........."