Frank Herbert Libros

Arrakis: un planeta desértico donde el agua es el bien más preciado donde llorar a los muertos es el símbolo de máxima prodigalidad. Paul Atreides: un adolescente marcado por un destino singular, dotado de extraños poderes, abocado a convertirse en dictador, mesías y mártir. Los Harkonnen: personificación de las intrigas que rodean el Imperio Galáctico, buscan obtener el control sobre Arrakis para disponer de la melange, preciosa especia y uno de los bienes más codiciados del universo. Los Fremen: seres libre que han convertido el inhóspito paraje de Dune en su hogar, y que se sienten orgullosos de su pasado y temerosos de su futuro. Dune: una obra maestra unánimemente reconocida como la mejor saga de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos.

El mesías de Dune es la continuación de Dune que había sido escrita en 1964. Frank Herbert continua la historia de Paul-Muad'Dib, el joven heredero al Ducado de la Casa Atreides. Han pasado doce años, gracias a su victoria en la Batalla de Arrakeen ha tomado el control del Imperio del millón de Mundos de las manos del Emperador Shaddam IV de la Casa Corrino, y se han librado dos cruzadas en los mundos del imperio para extender la religión Fremen.

With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. Leto Atreides, the God Emperor of Dune, is dead. In the fifteen hundred years since his passing, the Empire has fallen into ruin. The great Scattering saw millions abandon the crumbling civilization and spread out beyond the reaches of known space. The planet Arrakis-now called Rakis-has reverted to its desert climate, and its great sandworms are dying.Now, the Lost Ones are returning home in pursuit of power. And as factions vie for control over the remnants of the Empire, a girl named Sheeana rises to prominence in the wastelands of Rakis, sending religious fervor throughout the galaxy. For she possesses the abilities of the Fremen sandriders-fulfilling a prophecy foretold by the late God Emperor...

4th in Dune Chronicles Series With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent DUNE books stand among the major achievements of the imagination. Of them all, GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE, the fourth, is the greatest and the grandest. Centuries have passed on Dune itself, and the planet is green with life. Leto II, the son of Dune's savior, is still alive but far from human. He has become a human-sandworm creature, ruling over his angry and frustrated empire with his vast legions of Fish Speaker soldiers, enforcing peace for dozens of generations to teach the universe a lesson, while also waiting for the right time to turn Dune back into a desert planet. The fate of all humanity hangs on Leto's awesome sacrifice. "GOD EMPEROR OF DUNE seizes the glittering loose ends of empire, ecology and mysticism and weaves them together into a seamless, brilliant tapestry of a human ecology evolving to transcend worlds and time." (Baltimore Sun)

Segunda entrega de la extraordinaria serie de Frank Herbert, Las crónicas de Dune, considerada una de las más importantes sagas de ciencia ficción de todos los tiempos. El mesías de Dune continúa la historia de Paul Atreides, mejor conocido - y temido -, bajo el nombre de Muad'Dib. Como emperador del universo conocido, posee más poder del que jamás debió ejercerun solo hombre. Venerado como ídolo religioso por los vehementes Fremen, Paul se enfrenta a la hostilidad de las castas políticas que desplazó cuando asumió el trono, así como una conspiración dentro de su propio círculo de seguidores. Aunque la Casa Atreides comienza a desmoronarse a su alrededor por las intrigas de sus enemigos, la verdadera amenaza para Paul vendrá de su concubina, Chani, y de su hijo nonato, heredero de la dinastía familiar. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty...

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. In this, the final book in the Dune Chronicles, Herbert again creates a world of breathtakingly evolved characters and the contexts in which to appreciate them. The richness of detail and perspective fascinates, while the multi-layered plot evolves as pages turn. Riveting from end to end, the legend lives on in the greatest science fiction epic of all time.

Dios emperador de Dune es la cuarta entrega de la fascinante saga de ciencia ficción de Frank Herbert. Esta cuarta entrega de la saga «Dune» centra su trama en la figura mesiánica de Leto Atreides II (hijo de Paul Atreides, héroe cuya estirpe hunde sus raíces en la legendaria casa griega de los Atridas) y nos lleva, a través de diversos dilemas éticos, a comprender los mitos que necesita la humanidad y a los héroes que los encarnan. El futuro, en el mundo de Dune, pertenece solo a los que son capaces de pensar por sí mismos. Esta saga apasionante plantea por primera vez de forma completa, racional y convincente todo un mundo absolutamente diferente del nuestro. Sus referencias a los problemas ecológicos, el poder de las drogas y la fuerza de los mitos la han convertido en una obra de culto para millones de lectores en todo el mundo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world’s savior, 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 thirty-five hundred years. Leto’s rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance but his morality inhuman. A rebellion, led by Siona, a member of the Atreides family, has risen to oppose the despot’s rule. But Siona is unaware that Leto’s vision of a Golden Path for humanity requires her to fulfill a destiny she never wanted—or could possibly conceive....

Nine years after Paul Muad'Dib disappeared blind into the deserts of Arrakis at the conclusion of Dune Messiah, his orphaned twins, Ghanima and Leto, are quickly growing up and realizing that they are pawns in an epic struggle for the ultimate power -- control of the Imperium. No one around them can be trusted, as evidenced by Alia, the twins' aunt and official guardian, who has become the Abomination so many feared she would be. She is, in fact, possessed by ancestral voices inside her mind, and one in particular -- the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen -- is pushing her to fulfill her darkest prophecies.Conspiracies abound in this novel as the cult of Muad'Dib and the post-Paul governmental brain trust seem to be rotting from within. Sensing weakness, greedy factions -- like the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and House Corrino -- converge on Arrakis to destroy House Atreides once and for all.Easily the most memorable character in the first sequence of Dune novels is the Preacher, a mysterious prophet introduced in Children of Dune. The blind old man (who may or may not be Paul Muad'Dib) speaks out against the policies of Alia's regency and deplores the way the Fremen culture has become twisted in so little time. Using such a wise, all-knowing character, in my opinion, enabled Herbert to be more didactic in his writing without being too obvious. Through the words of the Preacher, the ecological and evolutionary themes running throughout the first three Dune novels become crystal clear -- a wonderfully emotional conclusion to a brilliant trilogy. Paul Goat Allen

This beautiful boxed set includes the first six novels of Frank Herbert's acclaimed Dune Saga, perfect for both longtime fans and new readers. Set in a distant future on a remote planet, this epic science fiction series is a triumph of imagination, featuring titles like DUNE and its sequels.