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The passengers aboard the starship Ad Astra spend most of their time on the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii within the virtual reality of twentieth-century Earth. There, they can experience nostalgia for the hardship of a life they've since evolved beyond. But when people inside the virtual reality chamber start to die, engineer Jacob Brewer finds himself face-to-face with a sentient machine obsessed with humanity. It has put itself in charge of the ship. And it wants to talk to Jacob...

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Publisher
Ace Books
Year
2005
ISBN-13
9780441012855
Genre
Science FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
Virtual realitySpace travelArtificial intelligence