Keith R Clark

"Earth's attempts at civilization have been evolving over the past 9,000 years, mostly by constant warfare and trial and error. A group of humans, some highly educated and curious, learn that a much more sophisticated and technologically advanced civilization has been on earth during the entire period of human's adolescent growth; watching them, living with them, and recording every major detail of human endeavor. The time has finally come, however, for Earth's people to join in and accept the new master society, or deal with the consequences."

An incredibly powerful, beautiful and continually learning Android, created within a super-secure government sponsored program, is somehow impossibly reprogramed to turn on its human masters, leaving control of the world and expansion to the cosmos by humans or machines totally in question.