About the Book
The breathtaking vision and incomparable storytelling of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: The Butlerian Jihad, a prequel to Frank Herbert's classic Dune, propelled it to the ranks of speculative fiction's classics in its own right. Now, with all the color, scope, and fascination of the prior novel, comes Dune: The Machine Crusade.
More than two decades have passed since the events chronicled
in The Butlerian Jihad. The crusade against thinking robots has ground
on for years, but the forces led by Serena Butler and Irbis Ginjo have
made only slight gains; the human worlds grow weary of war, of the
bloody, inconclusive swing from victory to defeat.
The fearsome cymeks, led by Agamemnon, hatch new plots to
regain their lost power from Omnius - as their numbers dwindle and time
begins to run out. The fighters of Ginaz, led by Jool Noret, forge
themselves into an elite warrior class, a weapon against the
machine-dominated worlds. Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva are on the
verge of the most important discovery in human history - a way to "fold"
space and travel instantaneously to any place in the galaxy.
And on the faraway, nearly worthless planet of Arrakis, Selim
Wormrider and his band of outlaws take the first steps to making
themselves the feared fighters who will change the course of history:
the Fremen.
Here is the unrivaled imaginative power that has put Brian
Herbert and Kevin Anderson on bestseller lists everywhere and earned
them the high regard of readers around the globe. The fantastic saga ofDune continues in Dune: The Machine Crusade.
