The Ascension Factor - Hardcover

Frank Herbert; Bill Ransom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399132244 ISBN 13: 9780399132247

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1988

Synopsis

On the water world of Pandora, the resistance fighters' main hope in the battle against The Director and his sadistic minions is Crista Galli, a woman believed by some to be the child of God

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Herbert (1920-1986), winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards and a #1 New York Times bestselling author, was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as a reporter and later as an editor for a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first science fiction story was published in 1952, but he achieved fame more than ten years later with the publication of "Dune World" and "The Prophet of Dune" in Analog. The stories were amalgamated in the bestselling novel Dune in 1965.

From Publishers Weekly:

This final collaboration between the late Herbert (Dune) and Ransom is a worthy sequel to their novel The Lazarus Effect. On the water planet Pandora, the tyrannical Director, a clone named Raja Flattery, is impoverishing the inhabitants to the point of starvation as he builds a new Voidship to orbit the spheres. Popular newscaster Ben Ozette has gone underground to broadcast the true facts about the Voidship project, taking with him Flattery's captive, Crista Galli, a woman raised by the planet's sentient kelp and now considered a god by the populace. Though Crista grew up in complete isolation, the kelp gave her a prodigious memory and other mental powers that she uses to aid the resistance. The thematic richness one associates with Herbert is again present, here centering on mind/body dislocations, from the torture victims driven mad to the bodyless brains in cyborgs, and Crista herself.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0399132244
• ISBN 13: 9780399132247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 381