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1 online resource (291 pages) |
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text file rdaft |
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| Summary |
A stranded starship's crew races against time to create an artificial consciousness in this epic by the New York Times -bestselling author of Dune . The starship Earthling , filled with thousands of hybernating 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. An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthling 's primary computer, which could guide them to their destination . . . or could destroy the human race. This classic novel by Nebula Award winner Frank Herbert begins the epic Pandora Sequence (written with Bill Ransom), which also includes The Jesus Incident , The Lazarus Effect , and The Ascension Factor. |
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Publisher metadata. |
| Subject |
Conscious automata -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781614750055 (e-pub) |
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9781680570991 (print) |
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