Frank Herbert 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.

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.

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.

Discover the ultimate collector's boxed set featuring deluxe hardcover editions of Frank Herbert's Dune saga: Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. This exquisite set includes a slipcase with original art, iconic new covers, stained edges, and illustrated endpapers, chronicling Paul Atreides' epic journey on Arrakis.

Herbert's evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. Arrakis is the source of spice, a mind enhancing drug which makes interstellar travel possible; it is the most valuable substance in the galaxy. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there, they fall into a trap set by the Duke's bitter rival, Baron Harkonnen. The Duke is poisoned, but his wife and her son Paul escape to the vast and arid deserts of Arrakis, which have given the planet its nickname of Dune. Paul and his mother join the Fremen, the Arrakis natives, ho have learnt to live in this harsh and complex ecosystem. But learning to survive is not enough - Paul's destiny was mapped out long ago and his mother is committed to seeing it fulfilled.

The Second Great Dune Trilogy contains God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune, and concludes the Dune Chronicles, one of the most influential SF series ever written. Herbert’s evocative, epic tales are set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. More than three thousand years have passed since the first events recorded in Dune. Only one link survives with those tumultuous times: the grotesque figure of Leto Atreides, son of the prophet Paul Muad’Dib, and now the virtually immortal God Emperor of Dune. He alone understands the future, and he knows with a terrible certainty that the evolution of his race is at an end unless he can breed new qualities into his species. But to achieve his final victory, Leto Atreides must also bring about his own downfall… Read the series which inspired the 2021 Denis Villeneuve epic film adaptation, Dune, starring Oscar Isaac, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and Josh Brolin.

This final book in the "Destination: Void" collaboration between Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom, set twenty-five years after the previous book The Lazarus Effect , concludes the story of the planet Pandora.

With millions of copies sold worldwide, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune novels stand among the major achievements of the human imagination as one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction. 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 Fremens, 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.