Based on a New York Times bestseller, inhabitants of a planet colony confront totalitarianism in this "intelligent" sci-fi fantasy "with solid characters" (Kirkus Reviews).
 
In The Jesus Incident, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author George Herbert and poet Bill 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!