Old Twentieth

Description:

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...

subjects: Space ships,  Virtual reality,  Science Fiction,  Fiction,  Artificial intelligence,  Engineers,  Fiction, science fiction, general

People: Jacob Brewer

Places: Gallipoli,  Cincinnati,  New York City,  London,  Barcelona,  Paris,  Berlin,  Vietnam,  L4,  Europa,  Beta Hydrii

Times: The 24th Century