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Destination: Void

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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.

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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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Like most soft sci-fi, there is a level of acceptance in the tech used where it is part of the fantasy. But the amount of mental juggling between old tech that we now know can't do what the story tries to say, and fantasy future tech is way too heavy to maintain over the entire story. I tried to follow it from the beginning twice and found it just too boring to enjoy. A rewrite with current tech and from a less blow by blow monologue would make this a great story.

Story consept is good, but level of tech is old.

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The story is solid and has potential but the bland narration and lack luster pseudo intellectual take on philosophy and AI robs the book of any enjoyment.

Bad all round

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