House Atreides
The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert.Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained...
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The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert.Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune—where we step onto the planet Arrakis...decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands.Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegades—and shapers of history.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553580273 (0553580272)
ASIN: 553580272
Publish date: August 1st 2000
Publisher: Spectra
Pages no: 681
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Epic,
Space,
War,
Space Opera,
Speculative Fiction,
Sci Fi
Series: Prelude to Dune (#1)
The three House prequels to Dune are FAR better than the sequels to Dune ever were. Dune itself is still the pinnacle, but these prequels are pretty awesome too, showing how situations in Dune began.
Complex, thrilling, exhilarating. A must read, and my first Dune book.. I can't wait to explore the rest of the universe :)
Review courtesy of The Literary SnobMy brother-in-law and friend is an avid reader, even more than myself. Our reading tastes overlap somewhere in the middle and go in two very different directions. For years he has been trying to convince me to read Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and other simila...
I'll read anything Dune and this was worth the time.
I'll read anything Dune and this was worth the time.