M. K. Stuyter Libri

Arrakis è il pianeta più inospitale della galassia. Una landa di sabbia e rocce popolata da mostri striscianti e sferzata da tempeste devastanti. Ma sulla sua superficie cresce il melange, la sostanza che dà agli uomini la facoltà di aprire i propri orizzonti mentali, conoscere il futuro, acquisire le capacità per manovrare le immense astronavi che garantiscono gli scambi tra i mondi e la sopravvivenza stessa dell’Impero. Sul saggio Duca Leto, della famiglia Atreides, ricade la scelta dell’Imperatore per la successione ai crudeli Harkonnen al governo dell’ambito pianeta. È la fine dei fragili equilibri di potere su cui si reggeva l’ordine dell’Impero, l’inizio di uno scontro cosmico tra forze straordinarie, popoli magici e misteriosi, intelligenze sconosciute e insondabili. Con Dune Frank Herbert inaugura la serie di romanzi divenuti ormai di culto, che segneranno in maniera indelebile l’immaginario fantascientifico letterario e cinematografico degli anni successivi.

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

Following the success of the stories that formed The Weapon Shops of Isher, van Vogt wrote the novel, The Weapon Makers, in 1943, to enlarge the story of human immortality, the conflict between a controlling government, The House of Isher, the mysterious Weapon Shops and man's place in the universe. The promise of the Weapon Shops' slogan, The Right to Buy Weapons is the Right to Be Free, is described thus: "Many of these weapons still carried the old names. “Guns” they were called, or “revolvers,” or “rifles,” but there the resemblance ended. These “guns” did not shoot bullets, they discharged energy in many forms and quantities. Some of them could kill or destroy at a thousand miles if necessary, and yet they were controlled by the same sensitive elements as the Weapon Shop door. Just as the door refused to open for police officers, Imperial soldiers or people unfriendly to the Shops, so these guns had been set to fire only in self-defense, and against certain animals during open season. They also had other special qualities, particularly as to defense and speed of operation."

Thousands of years after the death of God Emperor Leto II, the Bene Gesserit and the Bene Tleilax struggle to direct the future of Dune, now called Rakis

Nascosta sul pianeta della Casa Capitolare, Odrade, la Madre Superiora del Bene Gesserit, difende l'ultimo baluardo contro l'offensiva delle sanguinarie Matres Onorate. Un sogno inquietante turba le sue notti: qualcuno, di cui non riece a scorgere il volto, la insegue minaccioso e implacabile...Qual è la temibile trappola che la Regina Ragno sta tessendo per distruggere definitivamente la Sorellanza dopo averla costretta a disperdersi per tutta la galassia? ? Intanto Odrade, sempre più sola e isolata, assiste alla desertificazione del pianeta che lei stessa ha ordinato con un preciso obiettivo: ricreare l'antico ciclo ecologico dei mostruosi vermi della sabbia.

Taalstrijd op een verre planeet.

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