This Mass Market Boxed Set contains the three volumes of the Legends of Dune: "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, " 0-765-34077-1"Dune: The Machine Crusade, " 0-765-34078-X"Dune: The Battle of Corrin, " 0-765-34079-8 "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad"Frank Herbert's "Dune" series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to "The Lord of the Rings." Decades after Herbert's original novels, the "Dune" saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, in collaboration with Kevin J. Anderson. Working from Frank Herbert's own notes, the acclaimed authors reveal the chapter of the "Dune" saga most eagerly anticipated by readers: the Butlerian Jihad. Throughout the "Dune" novels, Frank Herbert frequently referred to the war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines." In "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, " Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson bring to life the story of that war, a tale previously seen only in tantalizing hints and clues. Finally, we see how Serena Butler's passionate grief ignites the struggle that will liberate humans from their machine masters, here is the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers, who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune. And here is the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, where traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange. . . . "Dune: The Machine Crusade" More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled in "Dune: The Butlerian Jihad." The crusade against thinking robots has ground on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have made only slight gains, the human worlds growweary of war, of the bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat. The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to regain their lost power from Omnius--as their numbers dwindle and time begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge thems