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In Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Mentats of Dune, the thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordma...

Der Aufstieg der Bene GesseritVor dreiundachtzig Jahren wurden die Maschinen in der großen Schlacht von Corrin vernichtend geschlagen. Vor dreiundachtzig Jahren ernannte sich Faykan Butler zum Imperator des neuen, Planeten umspannenden Menschenreichs, und vor dreiundachtzig Jahren verschwand der große Kriegsheld Vorian Atreides. Inzwischen sitzt Faykans Nachfahre Salvador Corrin auf dem Thron des Sternenreiches, doch von Frieden kann man noch ...

The third and final volume of }Prelude to Dune{ brings this science fiction series to a close. Mass market edition

Die letzte Schlacht in einem Djihad gegen die Maschinen Omnius, die mächtigste KI, hat sich auf Corrin, einem Planeten unter einer aufgeblähten Riesensonne, verschanzt, wo sie sich mit allen Mitteln gegen die Menschheit wehrt. Die Bewohner Corrins werden in Container gepfercht und in den Orbit geschossen, um so ein lebendes Schutzschild gegen die Raumflotte unter dem Kommando von Vorian Atreides zu bilden. Während Vorian sich eine Entscheidung...

A New York Times bestseller, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10, 000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces of...

Wir dürfen nicht vergessen, dass ein weit gefährlicherer Feind auf dem Weg zu uns ist.Die Geehrten Matres, ein Konkurrenzorden der Bene Gesserit, kehren aus der Diaspora zurück und überziehen die Planeten des Alten Imperiums mit Tod und Vernichtung. So wird auch Rakis, der Wüstenplanet, in einen Schlackehaufen verwandel und die sagenumwobenen Sandwürmer gnadenlos eingeäschert. Damit ist die einzige Quelle des Gewürzes versiegt und das Imperium...

Fleeing from the monstrous Honoured Matres - dark counterparts of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood - Duncan Idaho, the military genius Bashar Miles Teg, a woman named Sheeana who can talk to sandworms, and a group of desperate refugees explore the boundaries of the universe. Aboard their sophisticated no-ship, they have used long-stored cells to resurrect heroes and villains from the past, including Paul Muad'dib and his love Chani, Duke Leto Atre...

Die Geschichte der Raum-NavigatorenÜber Jahrtausende hat sich die Menschheit im All ausgebreitet und Planeten besiedelt. Nun, da der Krieg gegen die Maschinen gewonnen ist und ein neues Imperium gegründet wurde, hängt die Zukunft der Galaxis von den Navigatoren ab - genmanipulierten Menschen, die mithilfe des Gewürzes vom Wüstenplaneten gewaltige Raumschiffe durchs All manövrieren.

Intrigenspiel in ferner ZukunftIn der fernen Zukunft haben die Menschen das Weltall besiedelt, doch das menschliche Denken ist noch immer bestimmt von Machtgier, Korruption und Rachegelüsten: Gilbertus Albans hat eine Schule für Mentaten gegründet, in der Menschen das effiziente Denken der künstlichen Intelligenzen erlernen. Währenddessen will Valya Harkonnen vom Orden der Bene Gesserit Vergeltung für den Ruin ihrer Familie, und die VenHold Sp...

One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters

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The fantastic saga of Frank Herbert's "Dune" series continues in this "New York Times" bestselling installment that captures all the excitement and intricate plotting of the original.

A New York Times bestseller, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10, 000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces of...

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10, 000 years before Frank Herbert's classic Dune.The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These e...

A wonderful compilation of material celebrating and adding to the epic }Dune{ novels. It includes unpublished chapters and scenes from the original books as well as correspondence, short stories and an original novella by Brian Herbert

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...

Book One in the classic conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles Hunters of Dune and the concluding volume, Sandworms of Dune, bring together the great story lines and beloved characters in Frank Herbert's classic Dune universe, ranging from the time of the Butlerian Jihad to the original Dune series and beyond. Based directly on Frank Herbert's final outline, which lay hidden in a safe-deposit box for a decade, thes...

The Winds of Dune" is filled with the same psychological complexities that were a hallmark of Frank Herbert's books . . . A worthy addition to the Dune saga.--"The Denver Times." Available in a tall Premium Edition.

Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds....DUNE HOUSE HARKONNENAs Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides -- and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comforta...

It is eighty-three years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind. The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of Abulurd Harkonnen Griffen and Valya have sworn vengeance again...