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The second Dune installment explores new developments on the planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and strange, threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Muad'Dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to fruition an ambition of unparalleled scale: the centuries-old scheme to create a superbeing who reigns not in the heavens but among men. But the question is: DO all paths of glory lead to the grave?

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 Dune legend that will live on forever.

Here is the novel that will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.

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 children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy.

More than 3,000 years have passed since the first events recorded in 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 understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species.

On Arrakis, now called Rakis, known to legend as Dune, 10 times 10 centuries have passed. The planet is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying, and the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune. The children of Dune's children awaken as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love.

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 amuse themselves.

The Road to Dune is a compilation of material celebrating - and adding to - the epic Dune series. In this fascinating volume, the world's millions of Dune fans can now listen - at long last - to the unpublished chapters and scenes from the original Dune books; as well as correspondence with Frank Herbert relating to Dune, short stories by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson and also Spice Planet, an original novella by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, based on a detailed outline left by Frank Herbert.

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 join the company of "gods" on this planet - and the people here place certain expectations on their gods.

Het leven van Paul, van het nobele huis Atreides, verandert drastisch na het vertrek van zijn thuisplaneet Caladan. De keizer heeft zijn vader, Hertog Leto, het gouverneurschap van de weerbarstige woestijnplaneet Arrakis aangeboden. Maar is het een eervolle promotie of een manier om van de machtige familie af te komen?

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 he struggles to escape, David begins to feel a certain amount of respect for his captor. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired - or simply insane.

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 only one chance for survival: build an artificial consciousness in the Earthling's primary computer that can guide them to their destination - and hope it doesn't destroy the human race.

Arrakis è il pianeta più inospitale della galassia. Una landa di sabbia e rocce popolata da mostri striscianti e sferzata da tempeste devastanti. Ma sulla sua superficie cresce il melange, la sostanza che dà agli uomini la facoltà di aprire i propri orizzonti mentali, conoscere il futuro, acquisire le capacità per manovrare le immense astronavi che garantiscono gli scambi tra i mondi e la sopravvivenza stessa dell'Impero. Sul saggio Duca Leto, della famiglia Atreides, ricade la scelta dell'Imperatore per la successione ai crudeli Harkonnen al governo dell'ambito pianeta.

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" – ein Datum, das den Beginn einer großartigen Erfolgsgeschichte markiert: "Der Wüstenplanet" wurde zum weltweiten Bestseller und 2021/2024 von Denis Villeneuve spektakulär neu verfilmt.

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 Machtfülle ruft Neider auf den Plan, die seine Herrschaft brechen wollen. Und so mischen sich unter die Pilger, die nach Arrakis kommen, um den Erlöser zu sehen, Attentäter, menschliche Zeitbomben.

Dopo la distruzione di Dune, l'equilibrio del vecchio Impero è sconvolto dalla violenza delle Matres Onorate, che hanno ormai conquistato decine di pianeti della Sorellanza, distruggendo l'unico luogo dove esisteva il melange allo stato naturale e sterminando i Tleilaxu che lo creavano artificialmente. Soltanto la Sorellanza Bene Gesserit è ancora in grado di opporsi alla distruzione.

Nella Rocca del pianeta Gammu, il dodicesimo ghola di Duncan Idaho è osservato attentamente dalle Reverende Madri Schwangyu e Lucilla. Il Bene Gesserit ha dei progetti per lui, e ha richiamato in servizio il Maestro d'Armi Miles Teg per il suo addestramento. Tuttavia, i piani del Bene Gesserit rischiano di essere sconvolti da una nuova minaccia: le Matres Onorate, in contrasto con le Reverende Madri, sono tornate dalla Dispersione e, grazie ai loro poteri straordinari, stanno soggiogando i popoli al proprio volere.

Dopo millenni di dominio sull'universo, l'Imperatore-Dio Leto II, ibrido prodotto dalla fusione del suo corpo umano con diverse trote della sabbia, ha potuto assistere al profondo mutamento di Arrakis, ormai conosciuto solo come Rakis. Le antiche distese di sabbia sono soltanto un ricordo lontano, e il pianeta è molto diverso dall'arido Dune.

Sono passati nove anni da quando Paul Muad'Dib è scomparso nel deserto affidando la reggenza dell'Impero e la cura dei figli alla sorella Alia. La trasformazione ecologica di Arrakis prosegue con regolarità mentre il pianeta vive un periodo di grandi cambiamenti sociali ed economici e la religione sorta attorno alla carismatica figura di Paul Muad'Dib, trasformata da Alia in una soffocante burocrazia che minaccia di ridurre in schiavitù la galassia, richiama notevoli folle di pellegrini provenienti da migliaia di mondi.

Dodici anni dopo la vittoria dei Fremen sull'Imperatore Padiscià Shaddam IV, Paul Muad'Dib, erede degli Atreides, è ancora il temuto Imperatore della galassia e governa l'universo dalla sua capitale su Arrakis. La forza del mito che lo circonda viene però intaccata da un complotto che vede protagonisti il Bene Gesserit, la Gilda Spaziale, i Tleilaxu e alcuni Fremen ribelli: al centro della cospirazione c'è il tentativo di indebolire la sua capacità di comando e rendere instabile la dinastia degli Atreides ostacolando la nascita di un erede.