Title: Old Twentieth
Description: The passengers aboard the starship Ad Astra spend most of their time on the thousand-year journey to Beta Hydrii within the virtual reality of twentieth-century Earth. There, they can experience nostalgia for the hardship of a life they've since evolved beyond. But when people inside the virtual reality chamber start to die, engineer Jacob Brewer finds himself face-to-face with a sentient machine obsessed with humanity. It has put itself in charge of the ship. And it wants to talk to Jacob...
Subjects: Space ships, Virtual reality, Science Fiction, Fiction, Artificial intelligence, Engineers, Fiction, science fiction, general
Places: Gallipoli, Cincinnati, New York City, London, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Vietnam, L4, Europa, Beta Hydrii
People: Jacob Brewer
Time periods: The 24th Century