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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780553580273 ISBN: 0553580272 Label: Spectra Manufacturer: Spectra Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 681 Publication Date: 2000-08 Publisher: Spectra Release Date: August 01, 2000 Studio: Spectra Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Acclaimed SF novelist Brian Herbert is the son of Dune author Frank Herbert. With his father, Brian wrote Man of Two Worlds and later edited The Notebooks of Frank Herbert's Dune. Kevin J. Anderson has written many bestsellers, alternating original SF with novels set in the X-Files and Star Wars universes. Together they bring personal commitment and a lifelong knowledge of the Dune Chronicles to this ambitious expansion of a series that transformed SF itself. Dune: House Atreides chronicles the early life of Leto Atreides, prince of a minor House in the galactic Imperium. Leto comes to confront the realities of power when House Vernius is betrayed in an imperial plot involving a quest for an artificial substitute to melange, a substance vital to interstellar trade that is found only on the planet Dune. Meanwhile, House Harkonnen schemes to bring Leto into conflict with the Tleilax, and the Bene Gesserit manipulate Baron Harkonnen as part of a plan stretching back 100 generations. In the Imperial palace, treason is afoot, and on Dune itself, planetologist Pardot Kynes embarks on a secret project to transform the desert world into a paradise. Dune remains the bestselling SF novel ever, such that three decades later no prequel can possibly have the same impact. Yet in House Atreides the authors have written a compelling, labyrinthine, skillfully imagined extension of the world Frank Herbert created, which ably commands attention for almost 600 pages. It is powerful SF that continues a great tradition, and in itself is a very considerable achievement. --Gary S. Dalkin, Amazon.co.uk Product Description: The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert. Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten. Now, working from his father's recently discovered files, Brian Herbert and bestselling novelist Kevin J. Anderson collaborate on a new novel, the prelude to Dune—where we step onto the planet Arrakis...decades before Dune's hero, Paul Muad'Dib Atreides, walks its sands. Here is the rich and complex world that Frank Herbert created, in the time leading up to the momentous events of Dune. As Emperor Elrood's son plots a subtle regicide, young Leto Atreides leaves for a year's education on the mechanized world of Ix; a planetologist named Pardot Kynes seeks the secrets of Arrakis; and the eight-year-old slave Duncan Idaho is hunted by his cruel masters in a terrifying game from which he vows escape and vengeance. But none can envision the fate in store for them: one that will make them renegades—and shapers of history. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Derivitave, safe crapFirst off I'll be very upfront and admit that I'm one of those Dune fans who hates these books. I make no bones about it. Sure, they're books...technically. There's lots of pages, there's dialogue and there's stuff that happens and it's all written in prose that is definitely passable. But if you're the kind of person who likes the original books, and cares that they are light years beyond this one, then don't even bother reading it. Don't let that morbid desire to "know what happened" get to ... Read More Rating:  - LOVE IT!Dune-dUne, DuNE, DUNE duNE This book is TERRIFIC.. Start here after Franks original series and you will not regret it-Do not stop until you catch up to Brian's and Kevin's latest books-take a breather and read their newest Paul of Dune. Rating:  - Dune FanFor those of you that wrote that Brian Herbert is just trying to ride his father's franchise to financial success, maybe you should have read the last pages of the "House Atreides" book. Brian, initially, did not want to resume his father's work because of the enormous shadow Frank Herbert cast with the original Dune. Also, Brian had many of his own projects at the time. Brian had already collaborated with his father and had planed to write part of the Dune series with him before he died. Read More Rating: - Revisiting Dune's Universe!Brian Herbert is the son of Frank Herbert creator of Dune Saga. Brian and Kevin Anderson start with this book a difficult mission: revisit Dune's universe describing the events immediately preceding Dune, the first & unforgettable volume of the famous saga. Did they succeed? Well, yes and... no. Yes because they deliver an interesting first step with all the elements of this fascinating universe; and no because the story is not as gripping as the original Dune. Nevertheless Dune's ... Read More Rating: - I have waited a lifetimeAs I'm sure that a lot of Dune fans have for the continued stories of this wonderful sci-fi world. Brian and Kevin work well together and I think it pushes the writing well to a point that is very entertaining. 
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