From the back cover: A World of Water. In THE JESUS INCIDENT Herbert and Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite ... because Pandora's original owner is returning to life! Frank Herbert, a brilliant ecologist and futurist as well as a bestselling novelist, joins forces again with Pulitzer-nominee poet Bill Ransom in a new adventure awaited by SF readers around the world.





