A stranded starshipâs crew races against time to create an artificial consciousness in this epic by the New York Timesâbestselling 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 shipâs three Organic Mental Coresâdisembodied human brains that control the vesselâs functionsâgo insane. An emergency skeleton crew sees only one chance for survival: to create an artificial consciousness in the Earthlingâs 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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