Destination: Void

'''Herbert, Frank. Destination: Void.''' New York: Berkley, 1966. Rev. edn. New York: Berkley, 1978. Based on FH's "Do I Sleep or Wake," Galaxy 1965.

Both edns. relevant. The spaceship Earthling is run by an Organic Mental Core: an isolated human brain managing a computer. When the Core and its backup fail, the few awake crew members create true AI and put it in control of their ship—and of the lives of the unconscious passengers. The machine intelligence they create turns out to have godlike powers and demands "WorShip" from the crew. Discussed by Warrick 181-88,[] and by Wolfe 79-80;[] by W. Schuyler in his essay for TMG.[] (all cited under Literary Criticism) See in this Category, K. O'Donnell's Mayflies and A. McCaffrey's Helva stories.