What happens when you die, but the universe isn't done with you? You might end up as the pet of a giant worm-a-pede alien and...if you survive your evolved descendants and rogue aliens of 1 million A.D...discover you have more in common with intelligent worms than you ever thought possible. Yes, all this might happen if you are Rudy Albert Goldstein-the discoverer of the Biomic Network Algorithm-who thought his time had come. He had done his part to make the world a better place. Now he deserved-even looked forward to-a peaceful and mercifully succinct death. But the universe had other plans...