Project Gutenberg 2010-05-25 Public domain in the USA. 361 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred Mr. Spaceship Reading ease score: 87.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Barbara Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Mr. Spaceship" by Philip K. Dick is a science fiction novella that explores the implications of human consciousness transferred to a spacecraft, written during the early 1950s. It delves into themes of identity, war, and the nature of existence as humanity faces a seemingly insurmountable conflict with an alien race known as the Yucconae. The story revolves around an engineer's innovative yet controversial solution to end the war—using a human brain to pilot a spaceship instead of conventional controls. The narrative follows Philip Kramer, who is tasked with overseeing the transformation of a spacecraft to be guided by a human brain, leading to moral and ethical dilemmas surrounding the idea of sacrificing a human life for a greater cause. As the story unfolds, Kramer and his colleague, Commander Gross, seek out Professor Michael Thomas, an elderly and brilliant former teacher of Kramer, to provide the necessary brain for their experimental ship. The situation complicates when Professor Thomas takes control of the vessel and makes a decisive break from the confines of human expectations and ambitions, aiming to create a new society free from the patterns of war. Ultimately, the story concludes with Kramer and his estranged wife, Dolores, launched into the unknown with Professor Thomas's consciousness, raising questions about the nature of free will, the responsibilities of sentience, and the possibility of a fresh start in an uncharted universe. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32522/32522-h/images/cover.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/32522/32522-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction War stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 97191 97194 2024-10-14T03:37:52.825702 2023-09-14T08:36:44.356756 text/html text/html 94060 2021-01-25T17:41:54 text/html; charset=utf-8 447685 2021-01-25T17:41:54 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 522897 2024-10-14T03:37:55.901713 application/epub+zip 521842 2024-10-14T03:37:53.482721 application/epub+zip 82628 2024-10-14T03:37:53.064833 application/epub+zip 432199 2024-10-14T03:37:57.688689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 421453 2024-10-14T03:37:55.413678 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120579 2022-09-15T05:05:00.568724 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 82244 82145 2024-10-14T03:37:52.534701 2023-09-14T08:36:44.109745 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 82145 2021-01-06T15:41:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 31033 2021-01-06T15:41:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20802 2024-10-14T03:37:57.862664 application/rdf+xml 27609 2024-10-14T03:37:53.126701 image/jpeg 4570 2024-10-14T03:37:53.096708 image/jpeg 450993 2024-10-14T03:37:52.846698 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia