Steve's Reviews > Destination: Void

This is not a novel. It is a meditation on computers, AI, and Consciousness, as seen in 1978. Without all the speculation, it would have made a decent novella. But speculation is what it was all about with much discussion of early computers and whether or not they can be aware. It comes from the time, when computers were still considered dangerous (see HAL 9000 and many other rogue computer stories.), which is not a negative in itself. I don't fault it for being written before Apple and Microsoft. :-) It's the only novel I've tried to read in decades by skimming whole pages. If I wasn't interested in the sequels, ,I would have stopped after 50 pages, but I kept hoping for more. Considering that I like Herbert's other books, this was a real disappointment.