The novel “Destination: Void” by Frank Herbert was published for the first time in 1965 in the magazine “Galaxy” with the title “Do I Wake or Dream?” and as a book in 1966. A revised edition was published in 1978.

An interstellar spaceship is traveling to the Tau Ceti system carrying a crew in hibernation. It’s led by an Organic Mental Core (WTO), a brain separated from his body. However, in a short time two WTOs have become catatonic and a third one has gone mad.

The few members of the emergency crew have very few choices to avoid the order to abort the mission and return back before leaving the solar system. One of the possibilities is to develop an artificial consciousness. However, it seems that the official information on the mission don’t always correspond to the truth.