LEGENDS OF DUNE 2 The Machine Crusade

Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J

ISBN 10: 034082333X / ISBN 13: 9780340823330

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003

About this Item

Continues the Dune saga with a sequel to Prelude to Dune. 1357910 8642. Weight 1.1kg ; Legends of Dune; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 664 pages.

Seller Inventory # 14049

Bibliographic Details

• Title: LEGENDS OF DUNE 2 The Machine Crusade
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 034082333X
• ISBN 13: 9780340823330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction::Fantasy and Science
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

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 computers led by Xavier Harkonnen and Vorian Atreides.

But four of the Titans - murderous machines with human brains and human cunning - still remain. And the universal computer mind, Omnius, still wields most of its power.

Into this unstable landscape come two new factors.

From the depths of space and time, a free Titan - the near-legendary Hecate - joins forces with humanity. And in a humble laboratory on the planet Poritrin, the mathematical genius Norma Cenva is perfecting a theory that will utterly transform the rules of space travel.

About the Author

BRIAN HERBERT is a widely-published science fiction author in his own right. This is his first novel to call on his father's work: previously, he has created his own worlds, sometimes in collaboration. He has also written Dreamer of Dune, a comprehensive biography of his illustrious father. KEVIN J. ANDERSON is best known for his world-wide best-selling novels based on the universes of Star Wars and the X Files: he has been a Sunday Times number one bestseller. He is also the author of several more critically-acclaimed original novels. An expert on the US space programme, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for ten years.