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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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This is a philosophical essay disguised as a story, bit a good one.
I particularly liked the clear explanation on the connection between free will and quantum physics.

Great philosophical treaties

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The ship carrying several thousand sleeping colonists headed for Tau Ceti. Of the six carefully prepared people in charge, three had already died and so too had the three specially evolved brains controlling the voyage. There's was not the first such ship to encounter problems: the previous five ships had all encountered major problems. The crew still awake realised that they had not been told everything. Plus, they were clones and presumed expendable.The
For the first three quarters of the book I was absolutely enthralled: what was the real scheme behind these seriously expensive trips? Why had each of the crew members been given their own secret agenda? And the philosophic conversations on what constitutes consciousness?.Superb. But as the book entered it's latter stages, the technical stuff increased and, try as I could to follow, it lost me. Hence only four stars.
Narration was by Scott Brick, who always gives an excellent performance although I did wish occasionally that he'd pick up the pace slightly. But, as usual, his reading was textured and we'll modulated, a pleasure to hear.

My thanks to the Audible Plus programme for providing a complimentary copy of this book. Not, perhaps, an easy read; it demanded concentration. But rewarding, and I anticipate returning to read it again.
Recommended for all S.F.fans who prefer more cerebral action than physical .fighting.

"An occasional kick in the philosophy."

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As the title says, it was decent but not a scratch on other works by Frank. however it was well read by Scott Brickk as always.

Decent but not Herbert's best work

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when it was written !!
would have been fairly groundbreaking at the time!!

impressive really...
lots of parallels to other works of same authors.

well read.

bit trivial and predictable but consider..

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It wasn't definitely what I would consider to be Frank Herbert's best. Having read/listened quite a few of his books, the theme and the way the story develops is a bit same-y to me. But it was alright to listen to. :)

It was alright

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An interesting premise but the long character dialogues on nature of consciousness is dull, confusing and full of nonsense.

I write this as a philosophy grad with an interest in the question of consciousness.

A lecture on the philosophy of consciousness

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I found this a hard slog. The characters were uninteresting and it felt like they spent most of the time spouting unconvincing technobabble.

The quality of the reading was less than I’ve come to expect from Scott Brick, seeming to have little variation in delivery.

The next book in the series is the excellent Jesus Incident and I’m hoping that Destination: Void doesn’t put people off it.

I found Destination: Void hard to enjoy and my advice is to consider skipping it and going straight into The Jesus Incident instead.

An off-putting start to the series.

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Chapter upon chapter of musings about consciousness. I skipped three chapters and didn't even notice. It just droned on. Not my cup of tea.

Drags on a bit

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Need to concentrate, not one for background listening. This is a very technical book, not the usual character development that we're used to seeing with Frank Herbert.

Just Okay

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I'm a huge fan of the Dune series, gone through all books several times.
This one is better.

better than dune

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