Destination Void is a good short novel done by Frank Herbert *known for the dune stuff* it is actually the first of a series of books the second being "The Jesus Incident", the next the Lazarus Effect and final a co-written work called the Ascension factor.
Basically there have been attempts to further the development of true A.I. but the attempts previous had been so disastrous/risky that a bunch of cloned scientist's are given a ship with thousand's other's to populate an outer edge of the universe and make further attempts out there.
The first book follows the seventh group.
The ship known as the tin-egg is run by a series of OMC organic mental cores, human brains stripped of identity the only safe equivalent to ai that is considered spaceworthy. There is a chaplain-psychiatrist Raja Flattery- he was actually present on all the previous ships and has a submission to force the creation of a true a.i. as such he is in part responsible for a series of mechanical failures that destroy the OMC's leaving no other choice but to make the a.i.'s and make them work or die.
The first book starts subchapters with quotes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The remaining books have quotes from Raja Flattery and other crewmates in 'the book of ship' which sorta becomes like a religion.
Although, for Herbert I think the best example I've seen of his writing is the Godmakers, it was a short novel. Interesting and effectively done about a man's ascension relating both to politics and theology.
Yeah, I rambled alot there, the similarity was in the resemblence of Tony to the OMC's prior to their destruction, where even though they were meant just to guide the ship they appeared to keep some level of humanity especially as the ship was gaining a.i. sentience.
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Date: 2008-06-04 11:45 pm (UTC)Basically there have been attempts to further the development of true A.I. but the attempts previous had been so disastrous/risky that a bunch of cloned scientist's are given a ship with thousand's other's to populate an outer edge of the universe and make further attempts out there.
The first book follows the seventh group.
The ship known as the tin-egg is run by a series of OMC organic mental cores, human brains stripped of identity the only safe equivalent to ai that is considered spaceworthy. There is a chaplain-psychiatrist Raja Flattery- he was actually present on all the previous ships and has a submission to force the creation of a true a.i. as such he is in part responsible for a series of mechanical failures that destroy the OMC's leaving no other choice but to make the a.i.'s and make them work or die.
The first book starts subchapters with quotes from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
The remaining books have quotes from Raja Flattery and other crewmates in 'the book of ship' which sorta becomes like a religion.
Although, for Herbert I think the best example I've seen of his writing is the Godmakers, it was a short novel. Interesting and effectively done about a man's ascension relating both to politics and theology.
Yeah, I rambled alot there, the similarity was in the resemblence of Tony to the OMC's prior to their destruction, where even though they were meant just to guide the ship they appeared to keep some level of humanity especially as the ship was gaining a.i. sentience.