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Dune: Set on the desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange - necessary for interstellar travel and granting psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles...
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Gollancz,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 1988. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Herbert, Frank. Dune ; 1. Herbert, Frank. Dune ; 2. Herbert, Frank. Dune ; 3. |
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Dune: Set on the desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange - necessary for interstellar travel and granting psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the Harkonnen Noble House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privilege and through sabotage and treachery they cast young Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. There he falls in with the Fremen, a tribe of desert dwellers who become the basis of the army with which he will reclaim what is rightfully his. Paul Atreides, though, is far more than just a usurped duke. He might be the end product of a very long-term genetic experiment designed to breed a super human; he might be a messiah. His struggle is at the center of a nexus of powerful people and events, and the repercussions will be felt throughout the Imperium. Dune messiah: Paul Atreides, ruler of a thousand planets, great victor of a holy war, prince turned revolutionary leader, messiah of a fanatical religious sisterhood, is to be brought low by the very forces that created him. Yet foreseeing the plans of his enemies, he determines to drive on towards his own, shockingly different, vision of the future. Children of Dune: The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered and fertile but the altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children, and his heirs, can see possible solutions - but fanatics begin to challenge the rule of the all-powerful Atreides empire, and more than economic disaster threatens. |
| Carrier Form: | 911 pages : 1 map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm. |
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9780575070707 0575070706 |
| Index Number: | PS3558 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/H536-38 |
| Contents: | Dune. Originally published: Philadelphia : Chitton, 1965 ; London : Gollancz, 1966 -- Dune Messiah. Originally published: New York : Putnam, 1969 ; London : Gollancz, 1971 -- Children of Dune. Originally published: New York : Berkley ; London : Gollancz, 1976. |