Marathon - Smith D. Alexander - 1982

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250 pages. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. Hole punch in front cover. Pages are lightly tanned. The Open Palm and her crew are the finest Earth has to offer in 2058. Their mission: serve as ambassadors of the human race to the aliens called Cygnans. On board are eleven people who, in the absence of such fictions as faster-than-light drive, must live together for seven years. They were hand-picked for the mission, but their success hangs on factors that no psychologists could have foreseen. What will happen to them after, say, three and a half of those seven isolated years? And there is a twelth personality to contend with: the ship's computer, programmed to complete the mission successfully and to monitor the crew. What level of awareness can a such a machine develop? How refined can its decision-making become after years of human input? And when the mission begins to deteriorate, what will it choose to do . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0441519431. ISBN/EAN: 9780441519439. Inventory No: 19050214. By: Smith D. Alexander Year: 1982 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: