The correct answer is "D" Hyperthought is all the above.

The earliest human myths tell of our longing to know what the gods know. Prometheus suffered unspeakable agony after stealing the fire of enlightenment from the gods. When the serpent tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, the one offer she could not resist was to taste fruit from the tree of knowledge. "Know thyself," Socrates advised. And Peter wrote to the Corinthians about the promise of heaven, "Now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known."

What knowledge do we humans long for, that we would sacrifice the comforts of paradise and suffer ordeals of torture? The answer is - we want it all. Who am I? Why am I here? How was the universe formed? What is beyond the edge of space? What happened before time? Or as Goethe's Faust explained why he sacrificed his soul to the devil, "So that I may perceive whatever holds the world together..."

Hyperthought is a new science fiction novel by M.M.Buckner which explores these and other questions. Read more about Hyperthought, the novel.