Battlemind

Dev Cameron, killed during battle in space, has had his consciousness spread throughout the alien Naga/DalRiss symbiont fleet. He is thrust into a journey of amazing proportions, whiplashed millions of years into the future to meet... himself, the resident superintelligence of the Milky Way Galaxy! He learns from himself how to defeat The Web, an assimilating race of machine intelligences bent on destroying all that is not part of itself. "Remember," said the devgestalt, "This is the second time I've had this conversation." Read it!