Ascension Factor - Softcover

Herbert, Frank; Ransom, B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0441031277 ISBN 13: 9780441031276

Publisher: Ace, 1989

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 was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs--including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers--before becoming a full-time writer. He died in 1986.

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: Ace
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0441031277
• ISBN 13: 9780441031276
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 359