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Alla fine dell'ultimo romanzo di Frank Herbert, "La rifondazione di Dune", una nave che trasporta un equipaggio di rifugiati s'inoltra in una galassia inesplorata, in fuga da un terrificante e misterioso Nemico. I fuggitivi hanno usato la tecnologia genetica per far rivivere le figure chiave del passato di Dune - tra cui Paul Muad'Dib e Lady Jessica - usando poi i loro talenti speciali per affrontare le sfide che li aspettano.

Ambientato due anni prima di Dune, La principessa di Dune è la storia mai raccontata di due donne chiave nella vita di Paul Muad’Dib: la Principessa Irulan, sua moglie solo di nome, e il vero amore di Paul, la Fremen Chani. Entrambe saranno fondamentali per il regno imperiale di Paul, che si estende su tutta la galassia. Cresciuta alla corte imperiale e destinata a diventare una pedina di negoziazione politica, Irulan è stata inviata in tenera età a essere addestrata come Sorella Bene Gesserit.

Ideato dal genio creativo di Frank P. Herbert, "I cacciatori di Dune" è l'odissea dell'astronave di Duncan che dovrà eludere le diaboliche trappole disposte da un feroce e sconosciuto nemico. Per rafforzare le sue difese, l'equipaggio dovrà ricorrere all'uso della tecnologia genetica di Scytale, l'ultimo Maestro di Tleilaxu, per far tornare in vita personaggi chiave del passato di Dune, tra cui Paul Muad'Dib e la sua amata Chani, Lady Jessica, Stilgar, Thufir Hawat e persino il dottor Wellington Yueh. Fallire non è previsto.

Everyone knows Frank Herbert’s Dune. One of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, winning awards, selling millions of copies around the world. Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert’s eldest son, tells the provocative story of his father’s extraordinary life in this honest and loving chronicle. He has also brought to light all the events in Herbert’s life that would find their way into speculative fiction’s greatest epic.

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 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. Navigators, mutated by spice into beings far superior to normal humans...

The second instalment of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s bestselling The Schools of Dune trilogy. 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...

The authors of PRELUDE TO DUNE have written the triumphant climax to the history of the Dune universe: the story most eagerly anticipated by its readers. The universal computer mind Omnius has retreated to its last stronghold, where it plots a devastating new strategy that could undo the...

One hundred and ten centuries from now, humanity has spread across space. And all-powerful machines rule the humans who were once their masters. It began in the Time of Tyrants, when ambitious men and women used high-powered computers to seize control of the heart of the Old Empire including...

The first battle was a victory. But the war is just beginning . . . Earth is a radioactive ruin. But the initial campaign of the Butlerian Jihad has given new hope to mankind. Serena Butler, whose murdered child has become a symbol for oppressed humanity, inspires a war against the thinking...

Between the end of Frank Herbert's Dune and his next novel, Dune Messiah, lies an intriguing mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul Atreides is the man who overthrew a corrupt empire and then launched a terrible jihad across the galaxy, shedding the...

The second volume in the epic Caladan Trilogy In the year before DUNE, House Atreides is torn apart, caught in power plays among the Imperium, the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the CHOAM Company, and House Harkonnen. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul and consort to Leto Atreides, is torn from her home...

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. . . . As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new...

Working from recently discovered files left by his father, Brian Herbert and best-selling novelist Kevin J. Anderson bring us Dune: House Atreides, the prequel, which captures all the complexity and grand themes of the original work while weaving a new tapestry of great passion and momentous...

Book Two in the stunning conclusion to Frank Herbert's worldwide bestselling Dune Chronicles At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used...

Fleeing from the monstrous Honored 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...

As the no-ship Ithaca flees through space, the heroes of HUNTERS OF DUNE finally meet the Enemy who followed the violent fanatics, the Honored Matres, back to their universe. The thinking machines vanquished by Serena Butler's jihad were not destroyed, only driven into exile - and now, tens of...

THE ROAD TO DUNE is a compilation of material celebrating – and adding to – the epic Dune novels. 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...

Between the end of Frank Herbert's Dune and his next novel Dune Messiah lies a mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul of Dune begins the story of those twelve fateful years and the wars of the jihad of Paul Muad'Dib. It is an epic of battle and betrayal...

Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In...