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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
ISBN-13:9780765351500ISBN:0765351501
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9780765312945ISBN:0765312948
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780765351500ISBN:0765351501
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Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780765312945ISBN:0765312948
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Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780765312945ISBN:0765312948
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. VERY GOOD SOLID USED BOOK W/ DUST JACKET. IN NICE CLEAN CONDITION, SOLID SPINE, INNER PAGES ARE CLEAN. #29. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 512 p. Dune (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9780765312945ISBN:0765312948
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780340837559ISBN:0340837551
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 656 pages. The untold story of the twelve lost years between dune and dune messiah based on frank herbert's own notes and hints. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TOR
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780765312945ISBN:0765312948
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0765312948. American first edition, first printing. Published by TOR Books in 2008. Contains numberline 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Virtually no wear to jacket. Bottom spine area has a very small 1/8 tear. Jacket is NOT price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Fine condition with no bumps or marks. The binding is straight and tight. Remainder mark. Oversize and heavy items may require additional postage. read more
"The teenage me would have loved this book. She would have hung on every prophetic pronouncement from Paul Muad-Dib's lips. She would have found it all so *meaningful* and fraught with symbolism . . .
The adult me thinks, "Meh." I didn't even finish it. It was OK, but it was a filler, something I was reading because I didn't have anything better to read. Then my friend gifted me with something much more interesting. Dune is due back tomorrow. Hopefully there is a teenage girl out there somewhere who will pick this up and keep the dream alive."
"This book goes back and forth from the time between the books of “Dune” and “Dune Messiah”, and the time of a young Paul growing up on Caladan. What I especially love about this book, is how it revisit’s the House Trilogy, and reminds me of all that I had forgotten of the Atrteides, Corrino, and Harkonnen families. Beginning one year after the fall of Shaddam IV, the book goes into the Jihad’s beginnings, the destruction of the Landsraad, and Princess Irulan’s role as the wife of Paul-Maud‘Dib.
It goes into graphic detail of Paul’s Fedaykin fighters’ their hedonistic faith in him, their beliefs that they are carrying out his holy orders in bloody violence, without mercy, as they travel throughout the planets of the Imperium. Shaddam IV, exiled to Salusa Secundus, is desperate and asks for Fenring’s help. Irulan is writing another book on the life of Paul-Maud’Dib about his childhood.
It starts with the politically arranged marriage between House Atreides and House Ecaz, and the troubles it causes Jessica and young Paul. When the only son of House Moritani dies because of a house feud, the War of Assassins begins.
Disguised Paul-Maud’Dib joins his men in the fighting, and discovers about himself that he is not like his father Duke Leto. Jessica and Gurney return to Arrakis and report to Paul that the people see him as a tyrant, even those on Caladan. The Sisterhood requests a meeting with Marie, and is forced to leave her in the hands of her parents. Fenring uncovers the Tleilaxu-bred Kwisatz Haderach! Irulan wonders why Chani is not pregnant. The construction of the Citadel of Maud’Dib under Swordmaster Bluddi’s architectural vision continues.
Young Paul’s story continues when Duke Leto is forced into the War of Assassins, because of an attempt on Paul‘s life. The joined armies of Leto and Armand attack Grumman. After the Landsraad meeting, were Viscount Moritani receives a slap on the wrist from Shaddam for violating the rules of the War of Assassins, he demands that the Harkonnen army join his in order to defend against the invasion. Because the Baron wants to remain anonymous in Moritani’s revengeful war, the Baron is blackmailed in order for Moritani to keep their secret. Duncan and Paul seek refuge on the Eastern Continent, to keep Paul safe. They are tracked and hunted, until Paul convinces Duncan to return, to fight by his father’s side.
The first stage of the construction of the Citadel of Maud’Dib is completed. Paul holds the Great Surrender ceremony in the awe-inspiring Celestial Audience Hall. There is an assassination attack on Paul’s life. Irulan’s heart is hardened when her younger sister Rugi is an innocent victim of the attack. On Thalidei, Thallo and Marie are joined together for lessons, to learn from and teach one another. Marie is encouraged to use her deadly skills when Thallo tries to destroy the Theilaxu Kwisatz Haderach program. Shaddam IV intervenes in the war on Grumman, to prevent it from getting out of control. With the capture of Viscount Moritani, the Baron must act to protect himself and his house. Naturally consistent, Beast Rabban proves that he is not smart enough to lead, but just clever enough to survive.
Paul’s demand to speak with the Navigator and his prescience, gives him a resolution to his battle with Memnon Thorvald, Shaddam’s supporter. A visit from Maria to stay at the Citadel of Maud’Dib, gives Alia a chance to be a child, and is a threat to the life of Paul-Maud’Dib."
"When I first read "Dune" in 1983 I was amazed at how Frank Herbert was able to create an entire universe filled with new planets, alien races, politics and of course, religious fanaticism.
I was deeply saddened by the death of one of the greatest Science Fiction writers of all time.
Then to my delight, the team of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson catapulted the Sci-Fi fan base back into the world of "Dune" with some of the best written and imagined stories from the early days of the Dune legacy.
"Paul of Dune" is no exception.
This serving of the "Dune" history is a fantastic blend of present and past as it forms volume one of the two part link between "Dune" and "Dune Messiah".
I found the characters, the situations and the end results to be very brilliantly designed and satisfying. And I am one who has always found it tough to find good Science Fiction due to the fact that many authors tend to slide too far to the brink of being down right corny.
Although I know there is a butt for every saddle and that my views are purely my own, I would hope that readers of the new "Dune" books would see fit to not only give these great stories a shot, but also realize that they were all masterfully written for one purpose; To complete one of the greatest adventures of all time.
"Like millions of other people, I loved Frank Herbert's Dune and the five sequels to it that Herbert produced. In general, I've had mixed feelings about the prequels and sequels to Frank Herbert's series of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. It's not that they aren't good -- it's that many of them aren't very . . . Dune, dammit. The difference is something like that between the earliest versions of great movies, e.g., The Poseidon Adventure, and later versions, e.g.,Poseidon -- the originals grab you and don't let go, the sequels fall flat. To do Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson justice, their writing is a lot better than whoever was responsible for the atrocity that Poseidon turned out to be. It's just that they're not Frank Herbert, and while their contributions to the series constitute excellent writing, and are drawn directly from Frank Herbert's own notes about the novels he had planned to write if he'd lived long enough, they just don't have the Magick.
But there are exceptions. All of them are those which, with respect to the internal chronology of the entire series, occur very close to the time of Dune, the original, within a few decades, at most. This is true of Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson's Dune: House Atreides, Dune: House Harkonnen, and Dune: House Corrino -- and it's true of their Paul of Dune, as well.
Paul of Dune is a recap of Paul Mua'Dib's life from 10,187 AG to 10,197 AG, spanning the last part of Paul's effective boyhood to his first years as Emperor. It covers incidents that did not appear either in the original Dune novels by Frank Herbert or in any of the prequels written by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson, and gives a much richer portrait of the complex, troubled man who was Paul Mua'Dib than was available before from any author. Here is a deeper understanding of the complexities of the Corrino Imperium and the extremely dysfunctional man who led it at the end, of Paul's struggles to come to terms with his prophetic powers and his anguish at not being able to follow a path his father, Duke Leto Atreides, would have approved of, and of the careers of the many characters that have such powerful impacts on Paul, his choices, and the empire that he ultimately created. I think Frank Herbert would have approved heartily."
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