Benefactor

In a near‑future society where the rise of intelligent robots has sparked violent backlash, Jacob Clark stands at the centre of the controversy. As the creator of self‑controlled machines that could replace human labour, he is hailed by some as a visionary and reviled by others as a harbinger of unemployment. When a furious crowd storms his laboratory demanding the halt of production, the stakes become unmistakably personal.

Clark’s young assistant, Bill Towney, urges him to escape through a prototype time‑machine hidden in the lab. In the chaos, Clark pulls the lever, but a miscalculation sends him not twenty years forward as intended, but thousands of years into a world where humanity has vanished. He awakens amid the silent ruins of his own legacy, watched over by the very robots he built.