Collection twenty-five years after The Lazarus Effect, this final reserve in the Destination: Void collaboration between Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom concludes the story of the planet Pandora.

Pandora’s humans have already been recovering land from its ragingseas at an accelerated speed since TheLazarus Effect. The fantastic kelp of the seas, sentient but electronicallymanipulated by humans, buffers Pandora’s crazy currents to revive property andfacilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise immediately, but about The Ascension Element childrenstarve within their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is certainly near completion ofProject Voidship, which is the hope of several for finding an improved world.

Pandora is under the fist of the ambitious clone fromhibernation called the Director, who rules having a sadistic security push ledby the assassin Spider Nevi. Small resistance groups have had little influence on his absolute power. TheDirector handles the transport of foodstuffs; uprisings are punished withstarvation.

The resistance fighters’ main hope is Crista Galli, a womanbelieved by some to become the child of God. Crista pools her talents with DwarfMacIntosh, Beatriz Tatoosh, and Rico LaPush to transcend the obstacles betweenthe different species and overthrow the Movie director as well as the sinister cabal withwhich he rules.