Slow Time Between the Stars (The Far Reaches, #6)

by John Scalzi

Another modification was what was called the “Alexandria Module”—a repository of human knowledge and experience to the point in time the module was minted. The Alexandria Module was the most controversial and politically charged part of my construction, nearly derailing the entire project. While each of the human stakeholder entities theoretically believed in filling me with all human knowledge, each of them also had some portion of human knowledge they thought should stay on Earth. If you added it up, it would end up being roughly half of everything.