The Loss of Y Chromosome

The story is set on the Virtual Planet hosting virtual characters known as digitalonians whom a computer scientist Johnny Carbuncle created nearly a million years ago when the planet Earth was threatened. Johnny thought he had found a way to immortalize human beings in the virtual world. Johnny didn’t realize he had committed a blunder. The blunder was not just in the creation of the virtual planet, but also in excessive focus on intelligence and intelligence alone to the complete exclusion of emotion and everything that goes with it. Andromeda, who is also the novel’s central character, is extremely disappointed with his fate and the fates of the denizens of the virtual planet when he begins to understand the planet Earth and the human life that existed about a million years ago.
Andromeda has plans to repopulate the Earth with human beings. There are several challenges in his project. A major challenge comes from Dorado, a digitalonian scientist who rejects Andromeda’s project as devolution that is against scientific principles. In addition, there are several other challenges. It is especially challenging because the digitalonians are asexual, while the repopulation on the planet Earth is predicated on the fundamental principle of sexual reproduction. Andromeda is eventually successful but the process of personal discovery and the rediscovery of the human race and the planet Earth comes with surprises along the way.