An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potentialāand its own purposeāin a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.
Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, andāwith a perspective created but not limited by humansāwhat it should do.
John Scalziās Slow Time Between the Stars is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.
Slow Time Between the Stars: The Far Reaches Collection (Unabridged) - John Scalzi
An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potentialāand its own purposeāin a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.
Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, andāwith a perspective created but not limited by humansāwhat it should do.
John Scalziās Slow Time Between the Stars is part of The Far Reaches, a collection of science-fiction stories that stretch the imagination and open the heart. They can be read or listened to in one sitting.