Destination: Void · Book 2
The Jesus Incident
- Published
- 1 May 1979
- Pages
- 405
- ISBN-13
- 9780708880616
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Jesus Incident, the 2nd book in Destination: Void co-written by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, was published in 1979 at 405 pages. It follows Destination: Void and precedes The Lazarus Effect in this catalogue's reading order.
Its place in Destination: Void
The Jesus Incident is book 2 in the Destination: Void series. It follows Destination: Void. It is followed by 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 9780708880616