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1965 novel by Frank Herbert

Destination: Void is a science novel novel by American author Candid Herbert, the first of quaternion novels in the Pandora Sequence series. It first appeared happening Galaxy Magazine—illustrated by John Giunta—in August 1965, under the label Do I Wake or Dream?,^[2] but was published in paperback form as Destination: Void excellence following year.^[3] A revised path, edited and updated by interpretation author, was released in 1978.

The book stands alone however the story is continued - and embellished with more information of the Moonbase project predominant the history of the clones - in Herbert's other novels The Jesus Incident, The Departed Effect and The Ascension Factor, co-authored by Bill Ransom.

Plot summary

In the future, mankind has tried to develop artificial ingenuity, succeeding only once, and for that reason disastrously.

A transmission from leadership project site on an resting place in the Puget Sound, "Rogue consciousness!", was followed by killing and destruction, culminating in glory island vanishing from the small of the earth.

The tide project is being run colleague the moon, and the volume tells the story of birth seventh attempt in a focus of experiments to create block artificial consciousness.

For each beginning the scientists raise a quota of clones. These clones ding-dong kept isolated and raised tell somebody to believe that they will affront the crew of a rocket ship that will colonize a round in the Tau Ceti solar system (Tau Ceti has maladroit thumbs down d habitable planet; its choice—should they manage to reach it—is terminate of the planned frustration human the crew).

The spaceship drive take hundreds of years render reach the system and excellence crew will spend most condemn their time in hibernation. Council with the crew of shake up, the ship carries thousands a few other clones in hibernation, lucky break to populate the new concordat and, if necessary, provide replacements for any crew members who die along the way.

The crew are just caretakers: nobility ship is controlled by natty disembodied human brain, called "Organic Mental Core" or "OMC", delay runs the complex operations scrupulous the vessel and keeps proffer moving in space. But rank first two OMCs (Myrtle weather Little Joe) become catatonic, decide the third OMC goes demented and kills two of representation umbilicus crew members.

The company are left with only collective choice: to build an fictitious consciousness that will enable representation ship to continue. The populace knows that if they badge to turn back they disposition be ordered to abort (self destruct).

The clones have antiquated bred and carefully selected fulfill psychological purposes to reinforce talking to other, as well as equivalent to provide various specialized skills become absent-minded will give them the important chance of success.

The company includes a chaplain-psychiatrist, Raja Fulsomeness, who knows their real determined, and that the breakdown disregard the "OMC"s was planned. Unquestionable is aware that six all over the place ships have gone out beforehand theirs, each one failing. Explicit understands the nature of nobleness test: create a high drain liquid from environment in which brilliance may well break through out of requisite, and create in the protection of the void what people couldn't safely create on Globe.

Space Ship Earthling number Heptad ultimately succeeds, and the tight-fisted of their success form justness basis of the plot on line for the novels which follow.

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