Brian Herbert

La segunda entrega de la trilog#a "Leyendas de Dune". El legado de Frank Herbert, el fascinante y ya m#tico universo que cre# en Dune, sigue vivo en esta apasionante segunda entrega de la trilog#a "Leyendas de Dune". Han pasado veinticuatro a#os desde los sucesos relatados en Dune. La Yihad Butleriana. La revuelta de los humanos contra las m#quinas pensantes tras el asesinato del hijo de Serena Butler se ha convertido en un conflicto sangriento, que se ha cobrado innumerables vidas humanas. Vorian Atreides y Xavier Harkonnen comandan las fuerzas de la Yihad en una guerra interminable donde no hay vencedores ni vencidos. Los temibles cimek, liderados por el tit#n Agamen#n, planean recuperar el poder que perdieron. Norma Cenva y Aurelius Venport est#n a punto de realizar un descubrimiento que cambiar# radicalmente los viajes espaciales. Y en Arrakis, el remoto planeta de las dunas, Selim Montagusanos y sus partidarios dan los primeros pasos para convertirse en los fieros guerreros que cambiar#n el curso de la historia: los fremen.

El espl ndido desenlace de la exitosa trilog a de ciencia ficci n "Leyendas de Dune". El ltimo enfrentamiento entre los humanos y las m quinas... El origen de la rivalidad entre las casas Atreides y Harkonnen... Con La batalla de Corrin concluye la trilog a "Leyendas de Dune", el episodio sobre el cual se asientan los pilares del m tico universo creado por Frank Herbert. Cincuenta y seis a os han transcurrido desde los sucesos narrados en Dune. La cruzada de las m quinas. A la muerte de Serena Butler siguieron las d cadas m s sangrientas de la Yihad, pero, tras a os de lucha cruenta, los guerreros humanos empiezan a albergar la esperanza de que el conflicto contra las m quinas vea pronto su fin. Por desgracia, a Omnius le queda una carta por jugar. En un ltimo intento por destruir a la humanidad, propaga un virus mort fero que diezma a los habitantes de planetas enteros... y la balanza se inclina de nuevo a su favor. Al final, una guerra que ha durado generaciones tendr que decidirse en la apocal ptica batalla de Corrin.

Kevin J. Anderson and Brian HerbertBetween the end of Frank Herbert's DUNE and his next novel, DUNE MESSIAH, lies an intriguing mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul Atreides is the man who overthrew a corrupt empire and then launched a terrible jihad across the galaxy, shedding the blood of trillions. The now-hated tyrant, the blind emperor Paul Muad'Dib, has walked off into the endless desert of the planet Arrakis, known as Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his mother Jessica, with her daughter Alia, the brave troubadour-warrior Gurney Halleck, the resurrected Duncan Idaho, the Fremen leader Stilgar, as well as Paul's wife-in-name and biographer, Princess Irulan, to try and hold an empire together even as it tears itself apart from within and without.

La Saga de Dune mundialmente conocida y reconocida como una de las más grandiosas obras de literatura de ciencia ficción, fue creada por Frank Herbert y luego continuada por su hijo Brian que, junto con Kevin J. Anderson ha publicado cuatro libros donde se detallan los acontecimientos previos que condujeron a los hechos narrados en Dune. Crónica de una batalla mítica en la saga de Dune, origen de la irreconciliable enemistad entre las casas de Atreides y Harkonen. Prosigue la cruenta cruzada de las máquinas, Serena Butler ha muerto y Omnio, la mente artificial que gobierna a todos los robots y máquinas, ha desencadenado una epidemia letal que está acabando con la vida en todos los planetas del sistema. Sin embargo, ha surgido una nueva esperanza entre los resistentes.

Only the most desperate would ever dare to make a new home on Hellhole, a planet ravaged by natural disasters. Persistent volcanic eruptions, destructive storms and recent damage inflicted by asteroid impact make the planet a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits and charlatans. But its location out on the wild frontiers of the Constellation, among the Deep Zone worlds, makes it the final refuge for those fleeing from the rule of Diadem Michella Duchenet - a tyrant with a sweet face, but a dark and heardened heart. General Adolphus, the military leader exiled to the planet when he was defeated in the first revolution against the Diadem, is determined to transform Hellhole into a place of opportunity. While the colonists are diligently working to develop the planet, the General is forging secret alliances with the leaders of the other Deep Zone worlds. He dreams of turning his prison into the centre of a new coalition of planets free from the Diadem's iron grip. Back on the decadent capital planet of Sonjeera, surrounded by corruption and consumed by the plots and feuds of the old guard nobles, Diadem Michella is confident that the General has been neutralized. She has no idea of the revolt growing in the Deep Zone ...or does she? But what no one knows is this: the planet Hellhole, though damaged and volatile, hides secrets of historic magnitude. Lurking beneath the surface are the remnants of an obliterated alien civilization, detailing an unrecorded past, which, if unearthed, could tear the fragile human civilization apart.

Prosigue el envolvente entramado de leyendas fundacionales y de gestas míticas que darán origen al imperio galáctico de Dune, creado por Frank Herbert y felizmente continuado por su hijo Brian en colaboracion con el prolifico escritor Kevin J. Anderson . La ultima entrega profundiza en la genesis del Imperio Nuevo. En su centro se encuentra la Yihad Butleriana, nombre con que se dio a conocer la rebelion que en el pasado condujo a que los humanos se liberasen del yugo de las maquinas racionales. En el planeta Salusa Secundus, Xavier Harkonnen rechaza el ataque de los Titanes con la ayuda de la bella e inteligente Serena Butler, verdadera artifice de la sublevacion contra las maquinas. Sin embargo, tal proeza dara lugar a la batalla de Corrino, y al nacimiento de la enemistad entre las casas de Atreides y Harkonnen... Ver Especial Dune

Only the most desperate colonists dare to make a new home on Hellhole. Reeling from a recent asteroid impact, tortured with horrific storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and churning volcanic eruptions, the planet is a dumping ground for undesirables, misfits, and charlatans…but also a haven for dreamers and independent pioneers. Against all odds, an exiled general named Adolphus has turned Hellhole into a place of real opportunity for the desperate colonists who dare to make the planet their home. While the colonists are hard at work developing the planet, General Adolphus secretly builds alliances with the leaders of the other Deep Zone worlds, forming a clandestine alliance against the tyrannical, fossilized government responsible for their exile. What no one knows is this: the planet Hellhole, though damaged and volatile, hides an amazing secret. Deep beneath its surface lies the remnants of an obliterated alien civilization and the buried memories of its unrecorded past that, when unearthed, could tear the galaxy apart.

It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus, flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen, convicted of cowardice, was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil, and his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes. Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly "spacefolder ships". Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so, decades after the defeat of the thinking machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets, with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges

The sands of time have not diminished the impact Dune has had on the evolution of SF, and this new prequel by Frank Herbert's son and bestseller Anderson, following 2001's Dune: House Corrino (the concluding volume of their "House" trilogy), offers the kind of intricate plotting and philosophical musings that would make the elder Herbert proud. Reaching back into the beginnings of Arrakis, the authors show us Selim, a boy cast out by his tribe who discovers how to ride the fearsome giant sandworms. Selim tastes and learns the visionary power of the magical spice, melange, and how the future of Arrakis hinges on who controls it. At the same time, on planets far removed from the desolate dunes of Arrakis, others are involved in a Great Revolt. Free League World humans, led by Tercero Xavier Harkonnen and Serena Butler of Salusa Secundus, battle Omnius, a computer "evermind" intent on extending its dominion. The ominous Omnius seeks to conquer all planets not yet incorporated into his Synchronized Worlds system with the help of servile robotic extensions and colleagues, including Erasmus, a Thinking Machine "Hannibal Lecter" whose whimsical Mr. Spock-ish meditations enliven the proceedings immeasurably. Throughout, key revelations regarding the Zensunni Wanderers and their fight for freedom and other historical Dune elements lend an air of discovery to this fast-paced tale.Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Traducción de Encarna Quijada Vargas

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 as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power. But Duke Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his House, has his own plans for Ix. He will free the Ixians from their oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful place as Ixian ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune. Meanwhile, Duke Leto's consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn't know is that the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but a boy. Jessica's act of disobedience is an act of love — her attempt to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides — but an act that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby. Like the Bene Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for the future — securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself. With Duke Leto and other renegades and revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to engulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any seen before.

Returning to the vivid universe of Frank Herbert's "Dune", this title continues the saga begun in "Dune: House Atreides". 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, it is a time of momentous choice.

Esta novela continúa la excepcional saga iniciada con Dune, la Casa Atreides , en la que una amplia y variada galería de personajes se esfuerza por dar forma a un vasto mundo de misterio y locura, promesas y prodigios: el fascinante universo recreado en la inolvidable serie Dune de Frank Herbert . Shaddam ostenta una precaria posicion como gobernador del Universo Conocido, la cual depende de que engendre un heredero varon. Su liderazgo es ademas amenazado por el ambicioso baron Harkonnen, cuya insaciable ambicion de dominio le lleva a conspirar contra algunas de las mas poderosas fuerzas del Imperio, con la esperanza de elevar su Casa a un nivel de poder sin precendentes. Sus objetivos principales son la Casa Atreides y la misteriosa hermandad Bene Gesserit. La Hermandad no sospecha esta amenaza, ocupada en culminar el trabajo de siglos y crear un niño-dios que barrera emperadores, Casas y la propia historia en un terrorifico nuevo orden de tirania religiosa. Ver Especial Dune

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 as amal. If amal can supplant the spice from Dune, it will give Shaddam what he seeks: absolute power. But Duke Leto Atreides, grief-stricken yet unbowed by the tragic death of his son Victor, determined to restore the honor and prestige of his House, has his own plans for Ix. He will free the Ixians from their oppressive conquerors and restore his friend Prince Rhombur, injured scion of the disgraced House Vernius, to his rightful place as Ixian ruler. It is a bold and risky venture, for House Atreides has limited military resources and many ruthless enemies, including the sadistic Baron Harkonnen, despotic master of Dune. Meanwhile, Duke Leto's consort, the beautiful Lady Jessica, obeying the orders of her superiors in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, has conceived a child that the Sisterhood intends to be the penultimate step in the creation of an all-powerful being. Yet what the Sisterhood doesn't know is that the child Jessica is carrying is not the girl they are expecting, but a boy. Jessica's act of disobedience is an act of love — her attempt to provide her Duke with a male heir to House Atreides — but an act that, when discovered, could kill both mother and baby. Like the Bene Gesserit, Shaddam Corrino is also concerned with making a plan for the future — securing his legacy. Blinded by his need for power, the Emperor will launch a plot against Dune, the only natural source of true spice. If he succeeds, his madness will result in a cataclysmic tragedy not even he foresees: the end of space travel, the Imperium, and civilization itself. With Duke Leto and other renegades and revolutionaries fighting to stem the tide of darkness that threatens to engulf their universe, the stage is set for a showdown unlike any seen before.