Permafrost

'''Zelazny, Roger. "Permafrost."' Omni'' 8.7 (April 1986): 54 f. Rpt. The New Hugo Winners, Volume II. "Presented by Isaac Asimov." (Copyright held by Nightfall, Inc. and Martin Harry Greenberg.) Riverdale, NY: Baen, 1991. Used here the S. F. Book Club Edn., unmarked except for lack of an ISBN.

Dying Andrew Aldon has become a computer program central to "the great guardian computerplex" on a very cold planet; he comes to feel sufficiently "Godlike" to resist (for love of Dorothy) Gaia Herself, formerly Glenda, a woman murdered by Paul. Aldon gets the body of Paul, who gets translated into the computer—and the computer and Gaia war against each other while Dorothy and Paul move to a warmer planet (168, 173, 181-82). Cf. and contrast the humanized Frost and his love for Beta in RZ's "For a Breath I Tarry," cited in this Category.