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The Jesus Incident

71.4% complete
1979
2023
1 time
1 - Multiple unnumbered chapters
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 Pandora*
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A series of science fiction books by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom.

1) Destination: Void
2) The Jesus Incident
3) The Lazarus Effect
4) The Ascension Factor
Copyright © 1979 by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom
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.
Something went "Tick."
May contain spoilers
Surprise Me, Holy Void!
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Added: 11-Jan-2020
Last Updated: 02-Oct-2024

Publications

 01-Oct-1986
Berkley Books
Mass Market Paperback
In my libraryOrder from amazon.comHas a cover imageBook Edition Cover
Date Issued:
Cir 01-Oct-1986
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$3.95
Pages*:
416
Internal ID:
2080
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-425-10169-X
ISBN-13:
978-0-425-10169-8
Printing:
15
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:
Book Cover
Notes and Comments:
Berkley/Putnam edition published May 1979
Berkley edition / April 1980
Fifteenth printing / October 1986
Other prices: Canada: $5.25
 04-Nov-2014
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Audiobook
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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):
Internal ID:
23338
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.
Cover:
Book Cover
Notes and Comments:
©1979, 2011 Herbert Properties, LLC, and Bill Ransom ℗2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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01-Oct-1986
Berkley Books
Mass Market Paperback

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04-Nov-2014
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Audiobook

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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

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