The Ascension Factor by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom
Paperback
Published by Orbit
Orbit edition published 1990
CONDITION - FN
GRADING NOTES - Some light wear to all edges. Some light creasing to spine. A little sticker residue on front cover. Small creases to top left hand corner of back cover. Pencilled price on first page
ISSUE NOTES - Pandora - where water is the ecological equivalent of Dune's desert.
Pandora's human inhabitants have been recovering land from the planet's raging seas at an increasing rate since the events of The Lazarus Effect. Using the massive stands of sentient kelp to buffer themselves from the wild ocean currents, they are creating new settlements, but in the shadow of those settlements children are starving.
The planet is ruled by an ambitious clone known as The Director whose repressive regime leads to uprisings which are punished by starvation. The resistance fighters main hope is Crista Galli a women believed by some to be the child of God. Pooling her talents with those of others, Crista fights to overthrown The Director and his followers
Book 3 in the Pandora Trilogy