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Untold eons ago, a series of "voidships" was sent forth from our solar system, carrying human clones. And one of these, the Voidship Earthling, at some point became "Ship" the all-powerful - a God-like consciousness who now wonders whether humanity is worth keeping in business. So Ship chooses a testing-ground for humanity: Pandora, a planet about to be colonized by the Shipmen - who, led by three rapacious cynics, are straying from the doctrine of Ship's omnipotence and from the duty of WorShip. While Chaplain/Psychiatrist Morgan Oakes and his henchmen develop a Pandoran slave-labor force of deformed clones, Ship reawakens a survivor of the first Earthling voyage and sends him - a Jesus-like figure named Thomas - to Pandora to see whether humanity can redeem itself. The stories of Pandora, of Thomas the doubting Ship's emissary, and of the machinations of Oakes - all these are overlaid with countless biblical references and parallels that at first seem merely pretentious but eventually take on a certain fascination. All in all, this collaborative effort is shapelier and swifter-paced than Herbert's Dune books, but also less intricate and painstaking in imaginative detail. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting - with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up - that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It .
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Untold eons ago, a series of "voidships" was sent forth from our solar system, carrying human clones. And one of these, the Voidship Earthling, at some point became "Ship" the all-powerful - a God-like consciousness who now wonders whether humanity is worth keeping in business. So Ship chooses a testing-ground for humanity: Pandora, a planet about to be colonized by the Shipmen - who, led by three rapacious cynics, are straying from the doctrine of Ship's omnipotence and from the duty of WorShip. While Chaplain/Psychiatrist Morgan Oakes and his henchmen develop a Pandoran slave-labor force of deformed clones, Ship reawakens a survivor of the first Earthling voyage and sends him - a Jesus-like figure named Thomas - to Pandora to see whether humanity can redeem itself. The stories of Pandora, of Thomas the doubting Ship's emissary, and of the machinations of Oakes - all these are overlaid with countless biblical references and parallels that at first seem merely pretentious but eventually take on a certain fascination. All in all, this collaborative effort is shapelier and swifter-paced than Herbert's Dune books, but also less intricate and painstaking in imaginative detail. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness and has decided that it is a God. Now it is insisting - with all the not inconsiderable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up - that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It .
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