There Will Be Time by William Quick Paperback Science Fiction

Legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke once noted that, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Seven billion years ago, two vast civilizations battled for control of our galaxy, wielding powers incomprehensible to our young species. After a billion years of war, the losers fled our space-time continuum to escape utter destruction. Now they are returning to resume the titanic struggle.

And on an obscure, backwater planet the natives call Earth, IKE, an Intelligent Kinesthetic Experiment (Kinesthetic means learning by doing), lives in the most powerful quantum computer on the planet, where he is is painfully learning to achieve real consciousness and become humanity's first true Artificial Intelligence. But enormous cosmic forces are gathering to destroy him before that can happen.

Now time is running out for this tiny consciousness struggling to be born. Will there be enough time for him to save himself in the struggle of the giants?