"...be thankful for the machines. Or at least as thankful as you can be for any sort of doom. Our aliens are technically human. Genetically enhanced, but human. And robots must be deadly--I'd know as I build 'em--but I doubt they can be as cruel as people," Harper said. "In my 'verse, Earth's enslaved by the Neitzscheans--genetic super-men. And other aliens--the Magog--make raid on the planet to eat everybody they can catch and lay their larva in their stomachs. While they're still alive. Isn't that cheerful?" A big fake grin.