Geneticistspeople of metal at the University of Nairobi conduct a centurieslong genetic engineering initiative that transforms biological Africans into an entirely new immeasurably smarter human species Meanwhile the people of metal who led the Human Rescue Initiative in Africa have built human colonies on two distant planets to assure that humans survive somewhereColonists find strange mosaiclike formations of small stones at ground level on both planets They form identical patterns that change in a fixed sequence Itamprsquos a coded message that promises Godamprsquos overwhelming love to the messageamprsquos recipients if they can formally prove an ampldquounsolvableamprdquo 20thcentury math conjecture and send the proof in the direction of ampldquoGodamprsquos abodeamprdquoAfrican leaders treat the message as genuine just in case Godamprsquos love is nothing to sneeze at if He exists Contemporary mathematicians arenamprsquot yet smart enough to solve the conjecture but itamprsquos only a matter of time and genetics