When an orphaned prodigy meets his real mother on the eve of an alien invasion in Colorado, the boy discovers she's an android-and so is he.

Across the universe a race of machines is embroiled in a long civil war. At issue is their discovery of an energy source that obsoletes their current supply-the Living. When the Machine Empire orders the extermination of all organic life throughout their vast intergalactic federation, the ensuing holocaust fractures machinekind in two and the rebellion is born. After one great battle, Orlifs, the rebel androids that cherish and protect the Living, crash-land their starship on Earth and are hopelessly marooned. Their enemies, the Exterms, pursue them and the stage is set for the ultimate showdown. The fate of the Living now rests in the hands of two courageous machines, the stranded starship COMMANDER KARA and her wunderkind, semi human son JAMES SPENCER. They are Earth's last best hope if life is to survive the final battle of the First Machine War. It's liberation by a few or the annihilation of all Living.

LIFE'S OLDEST ENEMY IS EXTINCTION, AND IT HAS COME FOR US.