Towards the end of the fifth millennium A.D. a powerful event occurs. It has generated a superintelligence, Senraquan.
Ancient Saurians have already engineered a new species, the Bakubians, who are part machine, part human.
In this world of quasihumans the grotesque society that develops is, however, extremely efficient and well organised where Senraquan is the single, ultimate, decision-maker and is the superintelligence that dominates and controls all Bakubians who are subordinate to it.
Senraquan has the power of driving and containing the evolution of the new quasihuman intelligence, thus replacing what Saurians themselves believed to be the "imperfect work of Nature".
But things are starting to go seriously wrong and a few Bakubians realize it...

Of interest
(epub/free) Man Driven Brain Evolution
The Road to New Intelligent Life Forms