Faced with machines that think by and for themselves, super-intelligent space beings bent on a suicidal course and a galaxy teeming with dangerous alien life, man had to invent new weapons, new defenses -- or perish from the universe.

-- from the back cover

Contents:
• No Truce with Kings
• Turning Point
• Escape from Orbit
• Epilogue
• The Critique of Impure Reason
• Eve Times Four [omitted in British edition]