Destination: Void: Prequel to the Pandora Sequence: Herbert, Frank

Book overview The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship’ the vessel’ three Organic Mental Cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel’ functions—go insane.

An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthling’ primary computer, which could guide them to their destination .

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or could destroy the human race.