Dune: Butlerian Jihad

Frank Herbert's DUNE series is undoubtedly the grandest epic in the annals of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies worldwide, this great masterwork is Science Fiction's answer to THE LORD OF THE RINGS and is a brilliantly imaginative foray into the future. These novels were unmatched in literary history -- until the saga was continued by his son, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. Anderson with their New York Times bestselling prequel trilogy. DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES, DUNE: HOUSE HARKONNEN and DUNE: HOUSE CORRINO, quickly rose to bestseller lists everywhere and forged a whole new generation of DUNE fans. Now Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, in this first novel in an exciting new trilogy, based in part upon Frank Herbert's unpublished notes, reveal a pivotal epoch in the history of the DUNE universe, the chapter of the DUNE saga most eagerly anticipated by readers -- the Butlerian Jihad.

In the original DUNE Chronicles, Frank Herbert created a future history spanning 40,000 years. In these novels, he made numerous references to a titanic, multi-generational holy war in which humans won their freedom from the domination of "thinking machines." In their BUTLERIAN JIHAD Trilogy, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson introduce the characters and worlds that DUNE readers around the globe have previously seen only in tantalizing clues sprinkled throughout the original novels. Readers will finally witness how Serena Butler's passion and grief ignite the war that liberates humans from their machine masters, learn the circumstances behind the great betrayal that made mortal enemies of House Atreides and House Harkonnen, experience the Battle of Corrin that created a galactic empire lasting until the reign of Emperor Shaddam IV. Through their artful magic, the authors reveal the foundations of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Suk Doctors, the Order of Mentats, the mysteriously altered Navigators of the Spacing Guild and, finally, tell the amazing tale of the Zensunni Wanderers who escape bondage to flee to the desert world where they will declare themselves the Free Men of Dune.

The story begins 10,000 years before the events of Frank Herbert's DUNE -- Machine and Human are locked in a deadly struggle for supremacy. The centuries-long battle is finally in its last stages and the Human Race knows that somehow they must repel the tide that has begun to rise inexorably against them. Their opponents are seemingly invincible: Omnius, the evermind, the soulless artificial intelligence that is overlord of countless robots and machines on the Synchronized Worlds, and the Titans, whose sadistic and imperially arrogant human brains are housed in massive mechanical bodies designed to be weapons of destruction.

For centuries, the valiant men and women of the planets under human control have somehow managed to battle their remorseless enemies to a standstill but recently have grown complacent. Amid the political and shortsighted squabbling between the representatives of the League of Nobles, however, new leaders have begun to come to the forefront -- Xavier Harkonnen, the resolute and courageous military leader of the Planet of Salusa Secundus, Xavier's fiance, Serena Butler, a passionate activist who will become the unwilling leader of millions, Tio Holtzman, the brilliant scientist whose genius has begun to fade, struggling to devise a weapon that will help the human fight for freedom. Against the brute strength and faultless efficiency of their adversaries, these leaders and the human race have only their boundless imagination, their ever-expanding capacity for compassion, their lightning fast ingenuity and the irresistible desire for hope and love. It will have to be enough.

And on the backward, nearly forgotten planet of Arrakis, traders have discovered the remarkable properties of the spice melange.

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