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Project Pope
Published 1981 by Del Rey/Ballantine · 315 pages
Hugo · 1982
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6 award entries · 6 books · 1 wins · 1962–1982
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Synopsis
On a remote planet, a community of robots has spent a thousand years building Vatican-17, a project to construct an infallible artificial pope capable of finding ultimate theological truth. When a human doctor and a journalist arrive, they discover that the robots' Listeners have been exploring other dimensions and may have found Heaven itself.
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