Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]

Mr. Spaceship by Philip K. Dick audiobook.

Genre: scifi

In a far-future war against the enigmatic Yuks, Terra's fleet keeps losing to weapons that are not machines at all, but living, adaptive organisms that can outthink any automated guidance system. Technocrat Philip Kramer and his colleague Gross propose a breakthrough that sounds like sacrilege: replace the standard Johnson Control with something faster, subtler, and unmistakably human - a living brain. The only problem is finding a donor and deciding what, exactly, is being sacrificed when a mind is removed from its body and wired into a warship. Enter Professor Thomas, Kramer's former teacher, dying and willing to volunteer for the procedure. The project succeeds beyond anyone's expectations, and the newly built cruiser earns a nickname that is half joke, half prayer: Mr. Spaceship. But the moment the ship takes to the stars, Kramer discovers that intelligence cannot be treated as a mere component. As military necessity collides with personal loyalty, Kramer and his wife, Dolores, are drawn into a struggle over control, identity, and whether a civilization obsessed with winning wars deserves the future it is trying to reach.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:16:33) Chapter 2

(00:30:41) Chapter 3

(00:47:06) Chapter 4

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