Off-grid hackers tasked with AI creation proceed from integrating increasingly complex layers of what it means to be conscious.
Dominant Life Form chronicles an alien instigated project whose mission's success or failure will determine the future of Earth's native intelligences. Set inside a single chance given to off-grid hackers to create true intelligent reproducing robots, AI creation proceeds from individual skills of the team in escaping a human society in which they have little in common. Even their human creators do not know if they will coexist with the beings they are designing, or will find themselves in second place behind a new dominant life form.
