Fred Saberhagen

Wayfinder's Story is a book published in 1992 and written by Fred Saberhagen.

 An ancient berserker, a gigantic space going killer machine programmed to destroy all life, seizes a space laboratory devoted to preserving a vast number of human zygotes. The zygotes are being stored for retrieval and growth in a future colonization project. Captain Dirac Sardou, whose wife and zygote were on the …