Deadman Switch

Deadman Switch

by Timothy Zahn (Baen, 1988)

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Zahn melds SF concept (navigation requires a recently deceased pilot; spaceships carry two death-row felons) to moral quandary (one ‘zombie’ pilot has been wrongly convicted). The novel goes through several phase shifts exploring the wider value of maintaining a small human focus.

 

 

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