Destination: Void: Prequel To The Pandora Sequence - Plot & Excerpts
The operator, therefore, is the consciousness of the computer.—Raja Lon Flattery, The Book of ShipIt was at least five minutes before Timberlake returned with Bickel. While she waited, Prudence ran through the experiment a second and a third time. Both tests produced the truncated readout.She felt a constricting sensation in her chest. Every sound in the room pressed in on her—each tiny metallic click, the low humming of a timer, the faint breathing of a ventilator. She felt that this thing in front of her was something profoundly dangerous. It required her to act with delicate care. Something new had come awake on the Earthling.The hatch slammed open behind her. Bickel pushed her aside, bent over the terminal. “Let me see!” His fingers flew over the keys. He scanned the readout. “My God, it is!”Timberlake moved up behind him, peered over Bickel’s shoulder.“How?” Timberlake asked.“Tim,” Bickel directed, “take the panel off that storage bank. Check it with everything we have.
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