(Found) Sci-fi book, written before 1995 with exploding head on the cover

[Radek]

i'm looking for a book I read at nineties

cover was (probably) dark blue and there was an exploding head on it

main plot was about a space ship and it's crew traveling throught universe and main twist was about the fact, that ship has a consciousness

in one moment, one of crew member discovered this secret, and ship managed his head to explode
main protagonist was a women, who discovered this secred at the end.

 

[PaulMmn]

Head exploding immediately made me think of the movie "Scanners." When a Scanner scanned you, your head might explode!
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As far as a conscious ship-- Anne McCaffrey wrote about 'BrainShips--' physically defective infants were wired into 'shells,' which could then be inserted into space ships, space station, factories-- AFAIK, they never made anyone's head explode.

 

[williamjm]

i'm looking for a book I read at nineties

cover was (probably) dark blue and there was an exploding head on it

main plot was about a space ship and it's crew traveling throught universe and main twist was about the fact, that ship has a consciousness

in one moment, one of crew member discovered this secret, and ship managed his head to explode
main protagonist was a women, who discovered this secred at the end.

I think that this might be Nightflyers by George R.R. Martin. The cover also looks similar: Nightflyers

 

[Radek]

YES ! thank you very much. It's really Nightflyers
I see that Czech version of this book I read has real exploding head on it's cover.