Destination: Void · Book 1
Destination: Void
- Published
- 1 January 1966
- Pages
- 190
- ISBN-13
- 9782266016698
- Type
- novel
About this book
Destination: Void is Frank Herbert's opening novel in the series of the same name, first published in 1966. It's the natural place to begin, in a series that runs to 4 books in this catalogue and continues here with The Jesus Incident.
Its place in Destination: Void
Destination: Void is book 1 in the Destination: Void series. It is followed by The Jesus Incident. See the full Destination: Void reading order.
A generation ship crew is deliberately sabotaged by Earth's planners, its human command staff and cloned backups killed off one by one, forcing the surviving crew toward a desperate solution: building a true artificial consciousness to pilot the ship, because a colonizing mission without one cannot survive. Destination: Void (1966, revised 1978) is Frank Herbert working in claustrophobic hard-SF mode, a philosophical pressure-cooker about what it actually takes to bootstrap a genuine artificial god from first…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782266016698