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A spaceship on its way to a new colony develops a mind of it's own...what happens when a spaceship believes that it is God and teaches the future colonists to worship it? Read and find out.
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The Pandora Sequence #2
The Lazarus Effect
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The exciting sequel to The Jesus Incident, one of the greatest adventures since Dune.
A world of water
In The Jesus Incident, Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite because Pandora's original owner is returning to life.
A world of water
In The Jesus Incident, Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite because Pandora's original owner is returning to life.
393 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1,1983
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393 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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September 15, 1987 by Ace
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9780441475216
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0441475213
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English
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Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for his novels, he also wrote short stories and worked as a newspaper journalist, photographer, book reviewer, ecological consultant, and lecturer.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future, and taking place over millennia, explores complex themes, such as the long-term survival of the human species, human evolution, planetary science and ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, economics and power in a future where humanity has long since developed interstellar travel and settled many thousands of worlds. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the entire series is considered to be among the classics of the genre.
The Dune saga, set in the distant future, and taking place over millennia, explores complex themes, such as the long-term survival of the human species, human evolution, planetary science and ecology, and the intersection of religion, politics, economics and power in a future where humanity has long since developed interstellar travel and settled many thousands of worlds. Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, and the entire series is considered to be among the classics of the genre.
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Much better than the Jesus incident. Flows better. Conversation is better. Less disgusting.
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Not as tight as Destination Void but definitely my favorite book in this trilogy. Just a really well developed and explored world, the mermen and islander societies are a great take on humans living in a flooded world. I had a few issues, the taboo romance felt a bit trite, and the idea that the mutants are worthy of life because "look sometimes the mutations are useful" felt a bit ablest.
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DUQUE SIMŢI MIROS de carne arsă şi păr pârlit. Adulmecă aerul o dată, de două ori, apoi începu să bocească. Singurul său ochi sănătos lăcrima abundent. Încercă să-şi ridice pleoapa cu ajutorul degetului, însă durerea îl chinuia insuportabil. Mămica plecase undeva, afară. Afară era unul dintre cuvintele pe care le putea pronunţa, cum ar fi fierbinte, sau mami. Nu-şi dădea foarte bine seama unde se afla afară, şi ce formă avea. Nu ieşise niciodată din cubicul. Locuia pe un Clon-plută, ancorat de vârful unei stânci negre. Din fostele întinderi de uscat ale Pandorei, era singura care mai răsărea deasupra apei.
Frica puse stăpânire pe el. Mirosul de ars devenea din ce în ce mai puternic. Poate ar fi mai bine să spună ceva. De obicei nu vorbea; cuvintele se loveau de nasul imens care-i cădea peste gură. Se obişnuise să fluiere cu nasul. Mămica îl înţelegea, şi îi răspundea fluierând la rândul său. Stabiliseră între ei un limbaj format din peste o sută de cuvinte-fluierate. Încreţi fruntea; pielea se întinse, trăgând de nasul cărnos şi îndreptându-l. Fluieră, încercând mai întâi să afle dacă mămica se afla prin apropiere.
― Mami? Unde eşti, mami?
Ciuli urechile, încercând să distingă inconfundabilul scaff-slap... scaff-slap făcut de picioarele ei goale pe puntea pufoasă şi netedă a plutei.
Mirosul de ars îi umplu nările, făcându-l să strănute. De afară, dinspre coridor, se auzeau foarte mulţi paşi, mai mulţi decât auzise el vreodată; însă paşii lui mami nu erau printre ei. Se strigau cuvinte pe care nu le înţelegea. Trase aer pe gură, îşi adună puterile, apoi fluieră din rărunchi. Efortul făcut îi strecură durere în coastele fragile, iar vibraţia zgomotului îl lăsă năuc preţ de câteva clipe.
Frica puse stăpânire pe el. Mirosul de ars devenea din ce în ce mai puternic. Poate ar fi mai bine să spună ceva. De obicei nu vorbea; cuvintele se loveau de nasul imens care-i cădea peste gură. Se obişnuise să fluiere cu nasul. Mămica îl înţelegea, şi îi răspundea fluierând la rândul său. Stabiliseră între ei un limbaj format din peste o sută de cuvinte-fluierate. Încreţi fruntea; pielea se întinse, trăgând de nasul cărnos şi îndreptându-l. Fluieră, încercând mai întâi să afle dacă mămica se afla prin apropiere.
― Mami? Unde eşti, mami?
Ciuli urechile, încercând să distingă inconfundabilul scaff-slap... scaff-slap făcut de picioarele ei goale pe puntea pufoasă şi netedă a plutei.
Mirosul de ars îi umplu nările, făcându-l să strănute. De afară, dinspre coridor, se auzeau foarte mulţi paşi, mai mulţi decât auzise el vreodată; însă paşii lui mami nu erau printre ei. Se strigau cuvinte pe care nu le înţelegea. Trase aer pe gură, îşi adună puterile, apoi fluieră din rărunchi. Efortul făcut îi strecură durere în coastele fragile, iar vibraţia zgomotului îl lăsă năuc preţ de câteva clipe.
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Continues the "Destination:Void" universe saga that I entered in the previous book "The Jesus Incident." Just as good as the Jesus Incident.
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*minor spoilers within* Was this book really necessary? I suppose I'll only know once I've finished the trilogy in which this sits in the middle. The Jesus Incident revisits Herbert's well-known themes from Dune, throwing in a bit of speculative machine-intelligence philosophy, and wraps up happily enough that things could have been left right there... yet here we have The Lazarus Effect picking up, like the titles in the ongoing Dune saga, centuries after the previous volume, with problems that plagued the planet Pandora recurring like the refrain of a song. In a way, it brought to mind the way Star Wars: The Force Awakens followed up Return of the Jedi with the same power struggle reemerging in a successive generation. I bring up Star Wars as a possible influence on this book in the same way Dune was a definite influence on Star Wars: we have a young male agricultural worker getting thrown into a larger world of conflict and adventure (although in this case, it's the princess figure who rescues him), letting the reader experience the complexities of this world through his eyes and mind - a rarity in Herbert's fiction. It also throws in some familiar SF tropes that haven't presented as strongly in Herbert's usually super-esoteric writing - there are long passages describing the workings of science-fiction-y vehicles that drag with "pull that lever and push that button" kinds of stuff - perhaps a result of his collaboration with Bill Ransom? In any case, the result is a kind of "Herbert-lite": writing that reflects and reinforces the ecological/religious themes he spent the bulk of his career working through, yet more diversionary than substantial.
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If you're an ecology-minded individual who reads sci-fi with a passion, enjoys political intrigue/environmental battle, and remains open to sexual perversion in literature, The Lazarus Effect is really the second of a trilogy (i.e.: The Jesus Incident, The Lazarus Effect & The Ascension Factor). Although it is categorized as Destination: Void, #3, The Lazarus Effect can be read without D.V. and thoroughly enjoyed without having read it, yet not The Jesus Incident. Anyway, while immensely different from Herbert's "Dune" series, these few novels are compelling in their own right and readers will be rewarded with just as much intrigue, conflict and partnering ... some of which is unprecedented. Also, if you read "Jesus" and "Lazarus", it's necessary that you read "Ascension"; this novel completes the tale and was completed by Bill Ransom post Frank Herbert's death.
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This series is really weird but really cool
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