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Destination: Void

The Pandora Sequence

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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's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination—and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Don't miss Frank Herbert's classic novel that begins the epic Pandora Sequence.

©1966 Frank Herbert (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Adventure Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera World Literature Fantasy
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when it was written !!
would have been fairly groundbreaking at the time!!

impressive really...
lots of parallels to other works of same authors.

well read.

bit trivial and predictable but consider..

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Some of the dated technology references give a hint, but I was astonished to find exactly how long ago this was written. However, references to "tapes" and "relays" do not distract from the narrative at all, in fact the entire thing is a long technobabble prose poem. This is not a criticism. In the hands of Scott Brick it flows beautifully. (Probably would have found it a tough read though).

Prescient, complex

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I'm a huge fan of the Dune series, gone through all books several times.
This one is better.

better than dune

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you can feel a lot of similar story ideas between this and Dune. Enjoyable read.

interesting twists

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Chapter upon chapter of musings about consciousness. I skipped three chapters and didn't even notice. It just droned on. Not my cup of tea.

Drags on a bit

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