Life Probe — Michael McCollum

A FRIEND IN NEED

Before Man's ancestors began to walk upright, the Maker civilization was already ancient. When Man first used fire, the Makers had been searching slowly through space for millennia.

Then, after a 10,000-year journey, a Maker Life Probe blundered across twenty-first-century Earth-and eons of Maker science would soon be Man's for the asking. All Earth had to do was repair the Probe.

But first both Earth and the Probe had to survive a war...