Destination: Void · Book 4
The Ascension Factor
- Published
- 1 January 1988
- Pages
- 359
- ISBN-13
- 9780441031276
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ascension Factor, the 4th book in Destination: Void co-written by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, was published in 1988 at 359 pages. It follows The Lazarus Effect in this catalogue's reading order.
Its place in Destination: Void
The Ascension Factor is book 4 in the Destination: Void series. It follows The Lazarus Effect. See the full Destination: Void reading order.
A generation ship crew is deliberately sabotaged by Earth's planners, its human command staff and cloned backups killed off one by one, forcing the surviving crew toward a desperate solution: building a true artificial consciousness to pilot the ship, because a colonizing mission without one cannot survive. Destination: Void (1966, revised 1978) is Frank Herbert working in claustrophobic hard-SF mode, a philosophical pressure-cooker about what it actually takes to bootstrap a genuine artificial god from first…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780441031276