Destination: Void · Book 3
The Lazarus Effect
- Published
- 1 January 1983
- Pages
- 381
- ISBN-13
- 9780441475216
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Lazarus Effect is the 3rd book in Destination: Void co-written by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, published in 1983 at 381 pages. In the reading order it follows The Jesus Incident and precedes The Ascension Factor.
Its place in Destination: Void
The Lazarus Effect is book 3 in the Destination: Void series. It follows The Jesus Incident. It is followed by The Ascension Factor. 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 9780441475216