Frank Herbert has overreached [in The Jesus Incident]…. Some colonists trying to settle a hostile planet discover that their ship's computer is, or believes itself to be, God, and requires them to learn to wor-ship it in the appropriate manner Frank (Patrick) Herbert 1920– © copyright by Jay Kay Kleinon pain of being destroyed. To achieve proper wor-ship in a game played between the ship and the colonists is to achieve proper maturity. It is a long and ambitious work, but flabbier than The Dosadi Experiment, with the same tendency towards over complex narrative, while neither the characters nor the situation have sufficient weight to support the authors' ideas. It is not a trivial work, and is always interesting, but with the exception of the final pages it is too light and too messy to match the metaphysical points about gods and men that it is attempting to make...