Dune house arkonnen

La Maison des Atréides avait mis l'accent sur la jeunesse et l'accession au pouvoir du noble duc Leto (le père de Paul Muad'dib, le Messie de Dune). Le second volume s'intéresse à la Maison Harkonnen, celle des méchants, composée notamment du Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, de son neveu Rabban la Bête et du jeune Feyd Rautha, frère du précédent, sans oublier le Mentat perverti du Baron. Ils sont égaux à leur réputation détestable. Nous apprenons pourquoi Vladimir est devenu monstrueux, suite à une vengeance de la femme du Bene Gesserit qu'il a été contraint, par chantage, de féconder deux fois ; comment Rabban, stupide et pervers, fait le désespoir de son père, le vertueux Abulurd mais est désigné, pour sa cruauté même, par son oncle le Baron comme son héritier ; comment l'Empereur Shaddam s'empare de la planète Ix et la confie au répugnant Bene Tleilax dans l'espoir de produire de l'épice de synthèse et de ruiner le monopole d'Arrakis, la planète nommée Dune par ses habitants, les Fremen. Plus quelques intrigues, dont l'une, ourdie par le Bene Gesserit, conduit à introduire Jessica, fille du Baron Harkonnen dans le lit de Leto Atréides dans le cadre du grand plan visant à produire le Kwisatz Haderach, le maître du temps. Nous découvrons aussi comment Duncan Idaho devient un maître d'armes et comment Gurney Halleck rejoint la maison des Atréides après être parvenu à s'échapper de la planète maudite des Harkonnen...

La Maison Harkonnen (Avant Dune, #2)

House atreides ; prelude to dune

Les Chasseurs de Dune constituent le premier volet de la grandiose conclusion que Brian Herbert et Kevin J. Anderson ont apportée au cycle de Dune. L'action reprend à la fin de La Maison des Mères, développée à partir d'un plan et de notes laissés par Frank Herbert.

 
Les Bene Gesserit survivront-elles à l'assaut lancé par les Matriarches contre leur dernière citadelle ? Que sortira-t-il des monstrueuses cuves Axolotl du Theilax ? De l'épice, ou bien, sous forme de gholan, les anciens héros ressuscités du temps de Paul Muad'Dib ?

 
Et quel est, surtout, l'Ennemi d'Ailleurs ?

Après Dune Tome 1 : les chasseurs de Dune

This is the first collection of Brian Herbert's short fiction, a volume that is packed with highly imaginative, intriguing stories and ideas. In the previously unpublished "Death of the Internet, : Under Burning Skies, " the internet is wiped out-forever!-leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to function without a technology that they have become addicted to, and totally dependent upon. Another previously unpublished story, "Earth Games" describes an alien world where Earth people are kept prisoner and forced to perform competitions with hotrod automobiles. Those games strongly resemble rush-hour commute experiences in major U. S. cities, where drivers compete for lane space and make rude hand gestures to one another. A slight difference: the cars in this story have machine guns on the fenders, and cannons on the rooftops! Two of the stories in this collection-"Earth Games" and "The Stakeout"-were edited by Brian's father Frank Herbert, the famed author of DUNE, in the early 1980s, and rewritten by Brian, with those expert comments in mind. A New York Times-bestselling author, Brian has written many works of fiction and non-fiction. Brian is best known as the coauthor of 14 new Dune-series novels, written with Kevin J. Anderson. In his solo books, Brian is known for addressing important social issues, such as the environment, politics, and religion. In his highly original novel OCEAN, the ocean and its sea creatures declare war on human civilization, in retaliation for pollution and other human-caused abuses that are fouling the waters of the planet. In DANGEROUS WORLDS, the characters find themselves in an ocean of deep, deep trouble, and must try to get out of seemingly impossible situations. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't!

Dangerous Worlds

As all good Frank Herbert fans know, a gap of several years occurs between the events of Dune and its sequel Dune Messiah. Now Frank Herbert's son Brian and famed sci-fi writer Kevin J. Anderson have ably bridged that chasm with Paul of Dune, a novel that sustains the mythos and majesty of the original series. This epic installment describes Paul's triumph over the galaxy and struggles, military and psychological crises that accompany it. A worthy addition to one of fantasy's great cycles.

Paul le prophète (Légendes de Dune, #1)

On a world where music is illegal, everybody hums one song. Hiley OIV would love to have neighbors. He dreams of tying his home to a group of others during Ut's warm season, when the ground melts and the homes float about the planetoid. He would enjoy the comradery of neighbors, the card games and cookouts, and simply not floating away from everyone he meets. But it seems few enjoy his company long term. Because as much as he would enjoy neighbors, Hiley fears for his family's safety. And his lists of imagined dangers, risky behaviors, and outlandish scenarios prove too difficult for even his family to bear. So, when Hiley's teenage daughter rebels by bringing her rule-breaking boyfriend into their home, Hiley must manage a precarious situation beyond any potential danger found on his lists. Or risk losing his family forever. Sudanna, Sudanna's mix of eccentric humor, curious alien cultures, and fascinating technology elevates this fantastic science fiction novel into a thought-provoking examination of a society disturbed by colonization.

Sudanna, Sudanna

The climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune Trilogy, set 10, 000 years before Frank Herbert's classic DUNE. NAVIGATORS OF DUNE is a fascinating portal into vital components of the mesmerizing, intense universe of Dune.   Every DUNE fan knows of the Spacing Guild's mysterious Navigators, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood program to breed a superhuman, and the Mentats, trained as human computers to replace forbidden thinking machines. But until now, readers knew little of how they came to be. Navigators, mutated by spice into beings far superior to normal humans, make space travel possible across the burgeoning Imperium. Their prescient awareness allows them to foresee safe paths through the universe as starship engines "fold" space. Only industrial magnate Josef Venport knows the secret of creating Navigators, and he intends to build a commercial empire to span the galaxy. But at every turn Josef is embattled by the forces of anti-technology fanaticism, "Butlerian" zealots led by the charismatic and dangerous Manford Torondo, who wishes to countermand humanity's new renaissance and drive the Imperium back into a dark age. And between those titanic forces stands the uncertain new Emperor Roderick Corrino, forced to take the throne after the assassination of his brother. The Navigators are the key to charting a glorious future for humanity .

Navigators of Dune - The Great Schools of Dune, #3

Après les séries Avant Dune puis Dune, la genèse et enfin Après Dune, voici Légendes de Dune. Paul le prophète est le premier d'une série de quatre romans destinés à approfondir l'univers de Frank Herbert à travers certains de ses personnages les plus célèbres.

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