Project Gutenberg 2010-05-25 Public domain in the USA. 471 Dick, Philip K. 1928 1982 Dick, Philip Kindred Mr. Spaceship Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, January 1953. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Spaceship 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://book.klll.cc/files/32522/32522-h/images/cover.jpg file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/32522/32522-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 87.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction War stories Space ships -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: American Literature 97328 2025-08-13T09:11:19.491765 text/html 94060 2021-01-25T17:41:54 text/html 522982 2025-08-13T09:11:22.266752 application/epub+zip 521843 2025-08-13T09:11:20.122818 application/epub+zip 82628 2025-08-13T09:11:19.716806 application/epub+zip 432199 2025-08-13T09:11:23.928746 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 421449 2025-08-13T09:11:21.837740 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 120579 2022-09-15T05:05:00.568724 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 82244 2025-08-13T09:11:19.257790 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 82145 2021-01-06T15:41:09 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19673 2025-08-13T09:11:24.077751 application/rdf+xml 27609 2025-08-13T09:11:19.785759 image/jpeg 4570 2025-08-13T09:11:19.750763 image/jpeg 447685 2021-01-25T17:41:54 application/octet-stream application/zip 31033 2021-01-06T15:41:09 application/octet-stream application/zip 451027 2025-08-13T09:11:19.511854 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia