A renegade Berserker destroyer steals an entire orbiting biological laboratory filled with human zygotes, while a computer falls in love with a woman and must figure out how to acquire a physical body. Reprint.
In the cold reaches of space, the Berserkers--killer machines whose sole purpose is to destroy all living things--attack a floating laboratory, dumping stored human zygotes for a future colonization project--a billion potential lives--into an interstellar dust cloud. Three centuries...