Description

The starship Earthling, full of tens and thousands of hybernating settlers on the way to a brand new planet at Tau Ceti, is stuck once the ship’s three Natural Psychological Cores—disembodied individual minds that handle the vessel’s functions—go crazy beyond the solar system. An urgent situation skeleton team views just one opportunity for success: to produce an artificial awareness within the Earthling’s main computer, that could guide them with their location. . .