Frank Herbert

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Frank Herbert's bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! In this third installment, the sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the...

Heretics of Dune, the fifth installment in Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi series. On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, ten times ten centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms...

More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Frank Herbert's DUNE. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad'Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone...

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's power, have colonized a green world—and are tuning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. Chapterhouse Dune is the last book Frank Herbert wrote before his death: A stunning climax to the epic...

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

Frank Herbert's last published novel is a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian. What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen, Jr., finds himself sharing his body and...

Tausende von Jahren in der Zukunft und eine fantastische Welt: Arrakis, der Wüstenplanet. Einzigartig, herrlich – und grausam. Und doch haben es die Menschen geschafft, sich dieser lebensfeindlichen Umwelt anzupassen... Vor fünfzig Jahren erschien Frank Herberts Roman Der Wüstenplanet –...

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories...

Immortal aliens have observed Earth forcenturies, making full sensory movies of wars, natural disasters, and horrifichuman activities - all to relieve their endless boredom. When they finally becomejaded by ordinary, run-of-the-mill tragedies, they find ways to create theirown disasters, just to...

The starship Earthling, filled with thousands of hibernating colonists en route to a new world at Tau Ceti, is stranded beyond the solar system when the ship's three organic mental cores—disembodied human brains that control the vessel's functions—go insane. The emergency skeleton crew sees...

Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. It includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune...

On the edge of a war-weary and devastated galaxy, charismatic Lewis Orne has landed on Hamal. His assignment: To detect any signs of latent aggression in this planet's population. To his astonishment, he finds that his own latent extrasensory powers have suddenly blossomed, and he is invited to...

Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped 13-year-old David Marshall - the son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to survive as teams of hunters try to track them. Even as...

Der Auftakt des »Pandora-Zyklus« – neben »DUNE: Der Wüstenplanet« das zweite große Epos von Frank Herbert Die Menschheit bricht ins All auf. An Bord der gigantischen Raumschiffe liegen tausende Siedler im Kälteschlaf. Nur ein kleines Team an Wissenschaftlern bleibt wach, um die Arbeit...

Frank Herbert's Dune is widely known as the science fiction equivalent of The Lord of the Rings, and The Road to Dune is a companion work comparable to The Silmarillion, shedding light on and following the remarkable development of the bestselling science fiction novel of all time. Herein, the...

Unter Gottkaiser Leto II. wurde die Menschheit über die Galaxis verstreut. Nun kehrt sie aus der Diaspora zurück, und der Orden der Bene Gesserit sieht sich mit neuen Technologien und neuen Mächten konfrontiert. Da taucht aus der Wüste des Planeten Arrakis ein Mädchen auf, das mit...

Dreieinhalb Jahrtausende sind auf Arrakis vergangen, und die Welt hat sich gewandelt: Der ehemalige Wüstenplanet ist dank technischer Mittel eine grüne Oase geworden. Die einst so stolzen Fremen sind nur noch ein Schatten ihrer selbst, eine Touristenattraktion. Doch es gibt noch ein Stück...

Die ferne Zukunft: Der Kampf um Arrakis, den Wüstenplaneten, ist beendet, und Paul Atreides, genannt Muad’dib, ist von den Fremen zu ihrem Propheten ernannt worden. Sie folgen ihm bedingungslos in einen Djihad, der wie ein Sturmwind durch die Galaxis fegt. Pauls neues Imperium und seine...

A library planet: The greatest treasure, the deadliest weapon. Earth has become a library planet over the last several thousand years, a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge - esoterica of all types: History, science, politics - gathered by teams of "pack rats" who scour the galaxy for...