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1) Dune
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants 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...
2) Dune messiah
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The sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit plots to seize control of the galaxy-wide empire of their supernatural leader, while on Arrakis, the Maud'dib, the heir to an unimaginable power, confronts new challenges.
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Dune chronicles volume 3
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The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared in the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities -- making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced House Corrino is plotting...
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Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's saviour, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past 3,500 years. Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has not only made his appearance inhuman, but...
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Prelude to Dune trilogy volume 2
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Shaddam sits on the Golden Lion Throne, but he must produce a male heir, and his leadership is further threatened by Baron Vladimir Harkonnen whose primary targets are House Atreides and the mysterious Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 3
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Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 2
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English
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Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
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Frank Herbert's Children of Dune volume 1
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English
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Frank Herbert's Dune was just the beginning. Now, Frank Herbert's monumental saga of a young man's rise to universal power on an embattled desert planet, continues in this extraordinary miniseries based on Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Where it takes you is an epic of the human imagination.
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Book One of the Epic Prequel to the Classic Novel Dune—Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
Step into the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.
Before Paul Atreides became Muad’Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune . . .
Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew...
Step into the universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.
Before Paul Atreides became Muad’Dib, the dynamic leader who unified the wild Fremen on the desert planet known as Dune . . .
Before the evil Baron Harkonnen overthrew...
12) Hunters of Dune
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Tor
Pub. Date
2006
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1st ed.
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524 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
14) Paul of Dune
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Frank Herbert's Dune ended with Paul Muad'Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert's next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul's armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions...
15) House Harkonnen
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Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson return to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's Dune, bringing a vast array of rich and complex characters into conflict to shape the destiny of worlds.As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides-and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of his House, it...
16) House Corrino
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Fearful of losing his precarious hold on the Golden Lion Throne, Shaddam IV, Emperor of a Million Worlds, has devised a radical scheme to develop an alternative to melange, the addictive spice that binds the Imperium together and that can be found only on the desert world of Dune. In subterranean labs on the machine planet Ix, cruel Tleilaxu overlords use slaves and prisoners as part of a horrific plan to manufacture a synthetic form of melange known...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2012
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1st ed.
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496 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. Great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humankind.
18) Animal
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Martine épinglait les photos de cinq fillettes sur le tableau de liège, cinq fillettes âgées de huit et dix ans dont leurs disparitions restaient inexpliquées. Un mystère total. Pourtant, le premier cas remontait déjà un peu moins que cinq ans. Elle regardait ces cinq visages enfantins et elle ne savait pas par qui ou par o commencer. Elle avait beau relire les rapports d'enquête de ces prédécesseurs, elle n'avait aucune piste. Dans ces...
19) Déesses de glace
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Elle était resplendissante comme une poupée vitrifiée, comme une déesse dans son sanctuaire. L'espace était inviolable. Un secteur tout à fait spécial. L'immense dénivellation entre l'avenue des Pins et l'avenue Docteur Penfield faisait penser comme si elle était placée au pied d'un autel dans le choeur d'une chapelle. À quelques pas de là, un large escalier de bois rendait accessible l'avenue des Pins. Les arbres dissimulaient le haut...
20) Mosaïque
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Après 7 mois en poste, un cas compliqué échoua sur son bureau. Portant ses vêtements fétiches pour cette enquête et ayant sous la main son calepin Rhodia et sa plume Rotring, elle se plaisait à penser qu'elle était la future Colombo (la série télévisée américaine) ou Navarro (la série télévisée française). Sur place, elle découvrit une personne défigurée à coups d'un objet contondant qui gisait sans vie dans son lit. Aucune trace...
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