House Atreides – Kevin J Anderson
General Information
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Title: House Atreides
Author: Kevin J Anderson, Brian Herbert
Read By: Scott Brick
Copyright: 1999
Genre: Science Fiction
Series Name: Prelude to Dune
Position in Series: 01
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Book Description
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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
From Publishers Weekly
It was a daunting task to describe the origins and intricacies of the
many feuds, alliances, schemes and prophesies of one of the most beloved
SF novels ever written. Herbert, the son of Frank Herbert, who wrote
the original Dune, and Anderson (coauthor, Ai Pedrito!, etc.) have met
the challenge admirably. Within a web of relationships in which no act
has simple or predictable consequences, they lay the foundations of
the Dune saga. Duke Atreides and his son Leto are faced with an attack
by their ancient rival, House Harkonnen. Eight-year-old Duncan Idaho
strikes a small blow against the cruel Harkonnens by escaping their
territory and defecting into the service of the duke. Emperor Elrood,
Ruler of the Known Universe, takes vengeance on the machine planet Ix
in retribution for a personal affront. Elrood, in turn, is maneuvered
off the throne by his son Shaddam. The Bene Gesserits’ 1000-year-old
plan for breeding a perfect beingAthe Kwisatz HaderachAnears completion.
And behind it all lies the harsh, desert world of Dune, the only planet
in the known worlds to harbor the mysterious and powerful Spice, which
everyone wants to control and one man, paleontologist Kynes, seeks to
understand in his quest to make Dune flower again. Though the plot here
is intricate, even readers new to the saga will be able to follow it
easily (minute repetitions of important points help immensely), as the
narrative weaves among the many interconnected tales. The attendant
excitement and myriad revelations not only make this novel a terrific
read in its own right but will inspire readers to turn, or return, to
its great predecessor. (Oct.) FYI: Dune: House Atreides launches a proposed
trilogy.
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