A TALE OF TIMES - A FUTURISTIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL- NARRATED THE STORY OF MACHINE DOMINATED WORLD. The story takes place at a time when the dead are waiting to return to life. The technology of giving back life after repairing one's body, known as cryonics, will be a reality at any time. Many who detest death have spent a fortune on this future technology. Many of their lifeless bodies are stored frozen in laboratories, hoping to come to back to life one day Gene therapy is working wonders in the lives of humans. Age can be reduced, life spans can be prolonged, and one can live in the spring of youth forever... Robots are humans' loyal servants. Robots decide and control every move people make. None can live without robots. By mastering secrets of the genome, it is the execution of life that has become possible. A time when creatures can be produced by combining inorganic materials A time when people can create other people in laboratories Women no more need carry babies in their wombs. Such births are so rare they are almost unheard of. Children are created in laboratories. Human cloning has become a big industry. Globalisation, the global village, the IT revolution, the genetic revolution, the electronic age...there is no end to the change happening all around. Everything must move faster and faster. Will this coming age be a time of prosperity? At the pinnacle of Rome's prosperity there were only two types of people: masters and slaves. In this world, which celebrates the achievements of science and technology, there are also two types of people: those who conquer and those who surrender...