Fireship

Vinge, Joan D. "Fireship." Analog Dec. 1978. Rpt. with JDV's "Mother and Child." Fireship. New York: Dell, [1978]. Published in an S. F. Book Club Edition (no ISBN, n.d.), which we have used.

The hero is the combination of a man and a computer, who must gain access to a computer network that turns out to be a less successful merging of a man and a computer.