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Old Twentieth

Joe Haldeman

2005257 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Ace Books · 257 pages · ENGISBN 9780441012855
  • 2005Ace Books

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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