![]() ![]() ![]() Due to intervention by Brett's employer, Queets Twisp, who has been looking for them, as well as Islander Bushka who has become mentally unstable (due to guilt over being forced at gunpoint to pilot the submarine that destroyed the island and killed thousands), and the kelp, which has again become sentient, and hylighters (giant hydrogen-filled airship-like creatures which are vectors of the kelp that disseminate kelp seeds which have not been seen for centuries) Gallow's conspirators are eliminated, some killed by the kelp invading their hydrofoil boat and dragging the conspirators to drown. When Scudi and Brett escape they are pursued by Gallow's commandoes. ![]() He destroyed one of the small floating cities as well as kidnapped Ward Keel, a high ranking Islander who is the Chief Justice in charge of executing or not Islander neonates considered too mutated to be safe to live, in order to pressure the release of Vata into his care. Part of Gallow's plan involves gaining access to Vata, the human-kelp hybrid (conceived during the previous novel) who has been dreaming since the death of the kelp and who is under Islander control. Gallow, and his terrorist commando subordinates calling themselves Green Dashers (due to them painting their dive suits green as camouflage and after the vicious predator the Hooded Dasher), plan to take control of the hybernation tanks when they arrive from orbit with fauna from Earth as well as humans from the past. Due to being the heiress to a large Merman company controlling vital interests like food production and transport, Scudi has become the interest of GeLaar Gallow who wants to co-opt her resources into his insurgency. He is rescued by Scudi Wang, a female same-aged Merman and taken to her quarters in an undersea habitat. ![]() Without kelp acting to control currents, nearly teenage nearly-standard-human Islander Brett is lost overboard when the island he is on is struck by a rogue wave. They perform experiments aimed at bringing back both the intelligent kelp and rocketry to gain access to the hybernation tanks on Ship (the intelligent ship which humans created in Destination: Void and which brought the humans to Pandora). Mermen, who are genetically stable and are much like modern day humans apart from webbed hands and feet, live in submarine cities with a much higher amount of technology, better food, better medicine and an all around higher quality of life. Some are nearly like modern day humans but diversity is wide and accepted, but offspring which are considered dangerous mutations are executed soon after birth. Islanders are genetically unstable due to the clone and genetic experiments of Jesus Lewis. Islanders live on floating islands, the smallest of which houses at least 10 000 people, and which like much of Islander technology are living creatures. It takes place some time after the events in The Jesus Incident (1979).Īn indeterminate but several hundreds of years after The Jesus Incident the intelligent kelp has been almost totally destroyed, almost all land on Pandora has been submerged, and been humanity has divided into two cultures: Islanders and Mermen. The Lazarus Effect (1983) is the third science fiction novel set in the Destination: Void universe by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. ![]()
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