Old Twentieth

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Joe Haldeman: Old Twentieth (2005, Ace Books)

Hardcover, 257 pages

English language

Published Sept. 6, 2005 by Ace Books.

ISBN:
978-0-441-01285-5
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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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Subjects

  • Engineers -- Fiction.
  • Space ships -- Fiction.
  • Virtual reality -- Fiction.
  • Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.