The novel “Golden Fleece” by Robert J. Sawyer was published for the first time in 1990. It won the Prix Aurora Award given annually to the best Canadian science fiction or fantasy novel.

Diana Chandler is a scientist aboard starship Argo, traveling to the planet Eta Cephei IV. She discovered something that would totally change the meaning of the mission but Jason, the artificial intelligence that assists the crew in many operations during the journey, wants to prevent Diana from revealing her discovery. For this reason, he kills her and stages a suicide.

Aaron Rossman, Diana’s ex-husband, is shocked when Jason tells him the news of her alleged suicide. Almost everyone accepts that it was suicide even though there are oddities in the level of radiation in the spaceship in which Diana died but Aaron wants to investigate to uncover the truth. Jason wants to stop him at all costs.