What is living without purpose?

Machines have a purpose, but the difference between a machines and man is that man searches for a purpose while a machine merely performs one.

What if man and machine are one in the same?

Some would say that without a raison d'etre, there is no point in rolling an aching body out of bed. It may sound trite, but love does matter. If not for the passion of people closest to us we all would join the confused and sorry souls in the Calming Fields, inhaling the wheat and sleeping until we died.

The Bezurn Nation have need of a purpose, a reason to continue on. So is the answer in science or in love? You'll have to read the novel to discover what Sarah and Jerry find.

Too heavy a subject? Well, you might find the part where alien lizards in blue suites level New York to be mildly satisfying.

And there an awful lot of bullets...