Evolution's Darling

Does a clone have a soul? Darling, an astronavigational control unit and personal companion, achieves sentience and wants to know. Now, 200 years and an artificial body later, he is off in search of a dead artist, a living artwork, and the forces behind a mystery that spans the universe. Accompanied by a female assassin, he'll confront the Maker and get the answer. "Thanks to the tender care of a spaceship captain's daughter, an astronavigational computer achieves sentience. Two hundred years and an artificial body later, Darling, the ex-machine, is off in search of a dead artist, a living artwork, and the forces behind a mystery that spans the universe."--Jacket