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Henry, a brilliant but reclusive engineer, has achieved the crowning discovery of his career: he's created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He names the half-formed robot William. But there's something strange about William. It's not that his skin feels like balloon rubber and is the colour of curdled milk, nor is it his thick gurgling laugh or the way his tongue curls towards his crooked top teeth. It is the way he looks at Henry's wife, Lily. Henry created William but he is starting to lose control of him.

It is 2030, and a three-person human crew are on a ship travelling to Mars as part of a colonizing mission. Four years earlier, three robots were sent to the planet to build the base for the humans but when the human crew arrive, they discover a third of the base has been destroyed and only two of the three robots remain. When the humans question the robots, the robots offer two overlapping but different stories: the first believes they were attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial "other," the second attests the attack was the result of a violent malfunction on the part of the third robot...

Henry, ein brillanter Robotikingenieur, hat die größte Entdeckung seiner Karriere gemacht. Es ist ihm gelungen, ein künstliches Bewusstsein zu schaffen, das er William tauft. Tagelang schließt er sich mit William auf dem Dachboden ein, um ihn zu studieren. Doch etwas scheint mit William nicht in Ordnung zu sein: Er entwickelt Gefühle wie Hass und Eifersucht. Auf die Menschen im Allgemeinen und auf Henry im Besonderen. Gefühle, die er eigentlich gar nicht haben dürfte. Als William beginnt, eine Obsession für Henrys schwangere Frau Lily zu entwickeln, beschließt Henry, William abzuschalten.