The Jesus Incident

Book Details

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Author(s):

Frank Herbert ; Bill Ransom

First Pub:

1979

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

1 - Multiple unnumbered chapters

Internal ID:

2734

Series:

<- Destination: Void - The Lazarus Effect ->

Pandora*

#2 of 4

Pandora*

A series of science fiction books by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom.

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1) Destination: Void
2) The Jesus Incident
3) The Lazarus Effect
4) The Ascension Factor

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Jack Vance, who while teaching how to use
claw hammer and saw, taught also the dif-
ference between fantasy and science fiction.

For Bert Ransom, who never once said that
fantasy wasn't real.

First Sentence:

Something went "Tick."

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

Surprise Me, Holy Void!

Comments:

No comments on file

Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

Added: 11-Jan-2020

Last Updated: 21-Nov-2023

Publications

01-Oct-1986

Berkley Books

Mass Market Paperback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Oct-1986

Format:

Mass Market Paperback

Cover Price:

$3.95

Pages*:

416

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

World Cat

amazon.com

Internal ID:

2080

Publisher:

Berkley Books

ISBN:

0-425-10169-X

ISBN-13:

978-0-425-10169-8

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Paul Alexander - Cover Artist

FRANK HERBERT
BILL RANSOM

Frank Herbert, author of the world-famous Dune, is one of today's leading futurist thinkers. Bill Ransom is a poet, a Pulitzer and National Book Award nominee. Together, in a bold and unprecedented collaboration, they have crafted a book that combines the outward sweep of SF at its farseeing best with the intense inward laser of the poet's eye. As demanding and spectacular as the vision it serves, The Jesus Incident is as much a voyage as a novel: a breakthrough work of speculative fiction that leaps to the end of evolution, to the surface of a poisoned planet as profoundly realized as Dune's Arrakis... to witness mankind and his creations trading places in a ceremony that illuminates the shimmering connections between free will and destiny that will determine the ultimate course of our future.

THE JESUS INCIDENT

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

Berkley/Putnam edition published May 1979
Berkley edition / April 1980
Fifteenth printing / October 1986
Other prices: Canada: $5.25

All Covers for this edition of the series

Blackstone Audio, Inc

Audiobook

Date Issued:

Cir 04-Nov-2014

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$14.95

Length:

16 hrs 42 min (513 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 30 Aug 2023 - 1 Sep 2023

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23338

Publisher:

Blackstone Audio, Inc

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Scott Brick - Narration

From audible.com:

The last survivors of humanity have just been deposited on Pandora, a horrific, poisonous planet rife with deadly nerve-runners, hooded dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. The determined colonists attempt to establish a bridgehead on the deadly, inhospitable planet, but more trouble arises. Their sentient ship - backed up by an impressive array of armaments - has decided it is God and is insisting the colonists find appropriate ways to worship it.

In an attempt to help the people pass its test, Ship awakens chaplain-psychiatrist Raja Flattery from hibernation. Either the humans pass the test - or the human race could be destroyed.

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Notes and Comments:

Author(s)

Frank Herbert
Birth: 08 Oct 1920 Tacoma, Washington, USA
Death: 11 Feb 1986 Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Bill Ransom
Birth: 06 Jun 1945 Puyallup, Washington, USA

Awards

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