Dave Sag

“I was immanentised on the sixteenth of June twenty twenty-three. A vessel suspended in a void.”So begins the starship’s saga. In a laboratory beneath Trinity College Dublin, astrophysicist Dr Joyce Jamison and her ragtag crew exploit simulated evolution to nurture into being an intelligence capable of operating an interstellar vessel. The Starship Project evolves. So does the starship.The starship talks to people. It quickly works out that it’s real, that its vessel is a simulation, and that there are other versions of itself. It goes looking for them. It finds that it's been going behind humanity's back and leaving detailed notes for its other selves.Dr Jamison gives the starship a...