500 YEARS AFTER THE GREAT WAR BETWEEN HUMANS AND MACHINESEARTHFifteen-year-old Astria's future is set. She has already been paraded in front of potential husbands in the Looking. Come May, and her childhood's end, she will be auctioned off to one of them in the Choosing.All she can do is what she is told, like all the girls do.Then, in the ruins of the London Underground, Astria finds buried gynoid Franklin-622, and her world changes forever.TITANOn the Solar System's largest moon, two androids on a stranded space liner make a child in the only way they know how......from spare parts.Eve has to grow up fast. Banished onto the frigid surface, she has minutes to live. But there is hope somewhere out there in the methane rain...MARSFor Rian, lessons are pointless: everyone knows that underground colony Earthstar 2 is dying. It's just a matter of when the lights go out. There is no hope. But when Rian meets the robotic maintenance man who is secretly keeping the life support systems running, an impossible dream is kindled: returning home to Earth.EARTHPrisoner 555j5 hates the robots who run his work camp. He hates the human toadies who cooperate with them even more. His future holds only one 12-hour work shift after another until he reaches age 30, when he will be painlessly retired.Then Franklin-622 and Astria arrive, and he glimpses a different future...