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Destination: Void

The Pandora Sequence

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Destination: Void

By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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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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All stars
Most relevant
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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An interesting and compelling story that I enjoyed, with sometimes hard to follow and confusing prose. I'd recommend it but only if you have the stomach for some almost philosophical level discourse.

Good but tricky

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I found this a hard slog. The characters were uninteresting and it felt like they spent most of the time spouting unconvincing technobabble.

The quality of the reading was less than I’ve come to expect from Scott Brick, seeming to have little variation in delivery.

The next book in the series is the excellent Jesus Incident and I’m hoping that Destination: Void doesn’t put people off it.

I found Destination: Void hard to enjoy and my advice is to consider skipping it and going straight into The Jesus Incident instead.

An off-putting start to the series.

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An interesting premise but the long character dialogues on nature of consciousness is dull, confusing and full of nonsense.

I write this as a philosophy grad with an interest in the question of consciousness.

A lecture on the philosophy of consciousness

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