The Jesus Incident

by Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom, Bill Ransom Frank Herbert

1979 · 405 pages

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From a New York Times bestseller, "a tremendously exciting, mysterious, and powerful novel" about an AI creation that exiles humanity to alien planet (SFreviews.net).

A sentient Ship, an artificial intelligence with godlike powers, delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora—rife with deadly Nerve-Runners, Hooded Dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. Chaplain and psychiatrist Raja Lon Flattery is brought back out of hibernation to witness Ship's machinations as well as the schemes of human scientists manipulating the genetic structure of humanity. But will he be able to help humanity meet the demands of its ruler?

Quotes by Frank Herbert

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This group is composed of those for whom belief in saucers is tantamount to religion...They believe men from outer space will step in on Earth "before it's too late," put a stop to the atomic bomb threat "by their superior powers," and enforce perpetual peace "for the good of the universe"...
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"
[S]omebody said that ecology is the science of understanding consequences.