Dune: House Harkonnen
Brian Herbert • Kevin J. Anderson
Hodder & Stoughton (2000)
A prequel to Frank Herbert's Dune, set roughly a generation before the original novel. Shaddam Corrino IV now holds the throne, Duke Leto Atreides rules a comfortable House and faces a choice between friendship and duty, and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen — slowly consumed by a disease he cannot cure — plots against the Emperor, House Atreides and the Bene Gesserit. Alongside them: Jessica in training under the Sisterhood, Gurney Halleck in Harkonnen slavery, and the planetologist Kynes and his son Liet, working in secret to turn Arrakis green. Political intrigue, dynastic conflict and the machinery of the spice trade across a galaxy-wide canvas
קהל יעד:
Adult science fiction readers; Dune readers continuing the prequel trilogy
30 ₪
מילה אישית מהקן:
Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son, wrote the trilogy with Kevin J. Anderson using his father's notes and outlines. It is the second of the three Prelude to Dune books, and it fills in the childhoods and early histories of characters the original novel treats as already formed — Leto, Jessica, Duncan Idaho, Gurney Halleck and Liet Kynes. Dean Koontz praised it on the cover. Frank Herbert's Dune itself was adapted for the screen by David Lynch in 1984 and by Denis Villeneuve in 2021