Sandworms of Dune - Hardcover

Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340837500 ISBN 13: 9780340837504

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007

Synopsis

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 thousands of years later, they are back. Can the resurrected heroes on board the Ithaca save our race from annihilation?

About this title

About the Author

Frank Herbert, one of the greatest science fiction authors, died in 1986. His son Brian Herbert is a widely-published science fiction novelist in his own right. Kevin J. Anderson's novels include bestsellers based on the universes of Star Wars and The X Files. Together they created PRELUDE TO DUE, LEGENDS OF DUNE and THE ROAD TO DUNE, all bestsellers set in the universe created by Frank Herbert.

From the Back Cover

Frank Herbert (1920-1986), who created Dune, spent his early life in the Pacific Northwest of America. He was a journalist, photographer, political speech-writer and radio news commentator. Though he is best known for Dune, he was also the author of several other important science fiction novels including The Green Brain, The Dragon in the Sea, The White Plague, Destination: Void and The Dosadi Experiment.
When Frank Herbert died in 1986 his saga remained uncompleted but he left thousands of pages of notes including historical backgrounds and plot ideas. Some of this material has now been published in The Road to Dune. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson told the story of the years immediately before Dune began in Prelude to Dune and Legends of Dune and in stories published in The Road to Dune.

Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son, is a widely-published New York Times bestselling science fiction author in his own right. As well as being the co-author of the Prelude to Dune sequence, he has created his own worlds, including the highly acclaimed novels Sudanna, Sudanna, The Race for God and Prisoners of Arionn. He has also written Dreamer of Dune, a comprehensive biography of Frank Herbert.

Kevin J. Anderson, his co-author, has written an ambitious space-opera series, The Saga of Seven Suns, as well as numerous world-wide bestselling novels based on the universes of Star Wars and The X-Files. He has been a Sunday Times number one bestseller and in 1998 established the Guinness World Record for 'Largest Single-Author Book Signing'. His critically acclaimed original novels have been nominated for science fiction's highest awards.

From the Inside Flap

At last, the awe-inspiring grand climax of Frank Herbert's epic DUNE chronicles.

When Frank Herbert died in 1986, the epic he began with DUNE and continued to CHAPTERHOUSE: DUNE remained unfinished. For twenty years, millions of fans were left with a cliffhanger - until now. Working from his last outline, Frank Herbert's son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson have at last completed the chronological grand finale to the saga. SANDWORMS OF DUNE is the conclusion to the epic, finishing the story as the original author intended.

The foe that humanity believed to be long defeated has reappeared from the edge of the universe - and mankind's last defenders fear that nothing can stop it now.

Slaughtering whole planets with biological plagues, the terrible Enemy accidentally reawakened by the Honored Matres approaches ever closer to Chapterhouse, where Mother Commander Murbella and her combined force of Bene Gesserit and Honored Matres desperately gather their every defence to stop its advance. Meanwhile, Sheanna's no-ship flees from both Murbella and the Enemy, carrying the last surviving sandworms from Arrakis and the reborn heroes of past ages, including Paul Atreides himself.

One of them is the ultimate Kwisach Haderach - the messiah who will change the world in ways that no-one can predict. But far away on a horribly altered Caladan, the Enemy seeks to create a Kwisach Haderach of its own.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340837500
• ISBN 13: 9780340837504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496