Arrive at Easterwine

''This, I believe, is the first autobiography of a machine,'' writes Epikt, a Ktistec machine. In the resulting mindbending, at times hilarious, work of the imagination, the careful and attentive reader realizes that Epikt is not only presiding at its own birth at the Institute for Impure Science, but it is also addressing itself to the interpretation of mankind''s most profoundly puzzling problems.