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 later, humans pursuing Berserkers uncover what this deed has wrought.
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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 later, humans pursuing Berserkers uncover what this deed has wrought.