The Ascension Factor

The Pandora Sequence, Book 3

De: Frank Herbert, Bill Ransom

Narrado por: Scott Brick

Set 25 years after The Lazarus Effect, this final book in the Destination: Void collaboration between Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom concludes the story of the planet Pandora.

Pandora's humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora's wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight, but children starve in their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is near completion of Project Voidship, which is the hope of many for finding a better world.

Pandora is under the fist of an ambitious clone from hibernation called the Director, who rules with a sadistic security force led by the assassin Spider Nevi. Small resistance groups have had little effect on his absolute power. The Director controls the transportation of foodstuffs; uprisings are punished with starvation.

The resistance fighters' main hope is Crista Galli, a woman believed by some to be the child of God. Crista pools her talents with Dwarf MacIntosh, Beatriz Tatoosh, and Rico LaPush to transcend the barriers between the different species and overthrow the Director and the sinister cabal with which he rules.

©1988, 2012 Herbert Properties, LLC, and Bill Ransom (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Not a good close to the series.

Destination Void is by far the best one of the series. The Ascension Factor was an okay story, but not nearly as good as it predecessors. I wish the authors had taken it in another direction.

Randomly terrible

I don’t know where to begin. My opinion, don’t waste your time. Seems the author is all over the place. Hard to believe this was published

Disappointing finale

Worst of the series. Destination Void was brilliant, but it was all downhill from there.

Rehashed

Too much repetition of concepts and themes from the original books. Almost a retelling. Not enough new.