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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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Heavy reading but a digestible story... There is much philosophical discussion by characters with personal biases who complicate the reading as academic discussion tends to do...

Consciousness ...

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Its bad. The pseudo philosophy of consciousness and ridiculous retro technology of relays and paper tape output - already becoming obsolete when written. But its brilliant with a riveting story, surprising reveals, intrigue and genuine tense moments. Whether you like the ending or not, the basic premise of the succession of ships to Tau Ceti stands among the greatest ideas of SF.

Brilliant and terrible at the time

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I really enjoyed this story. I liked the interactions between the characters surrounding the development of the AI.

Good yarn

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after loving the Dune series I had high expectations and the premise of this story is clever. but it basically has a group to discussing what is consciousness again and again with little action. 2001 space odyssey does it way better, even terminator does it better. heck even Saturn 3 probably does it better. the fadt it is a prequel to a series gives me no interest in reading or listening to more. a chore to get through.

disappointing

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Looking forward to sci-fi but too philosophical for me, couldn’t get into it . Shame.

Too philosophical

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